According to the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS), desflurane has a global warming "potential" that is 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2), another gas that climate fanatics fear because they think it is responsible for melting the polar ice caps.

Already, some hospitals in the U.K. have begun phasing out the anesthetic, which will be gone from England as well by early 2024, except in exceptional circumstances.

The widespread claim, which is unsubstantiated, maintains that ending the use of desflurane in the U.K. will reduce "harmful emissions" by upwards of 40 kilotons of carbon per year, which is enough to power 1,100 homes (supposedly).

(Related: In 2018, a paper was published claiming that anesthesia destroys cognitive performance in adults.)

Everything damages the climate, so it must all be banned