Switzerland Wants Children to Eat Insects – Taste tests targeted to middle school kids who ate ‘spiced mealworms, crickets dusted with paprika’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/switzerland-wants-children-to-eat-less-chocolate-more-insects-b1274fa7 By Matthew Dalton MAUR, Switzerland—In this land of cheese and chocolate, children are being schooled in the more subtle pleasures of eating mealworms, locusts and crickets. On a recent morning, students at a middle school outside Zurich gathered around a table laden with snacks made of insects. They quickly scooped up spiced mealworms, crickets dusted […]
Media Matters: Tucker Carlson ‘platformed some of the most notorious climate deniers’ – He hosted ‘climate change denier Marc Morano 14 times’ from 2019-2023
Carlson platformed climate change deniers who influenced his coverage https://www.mediamatters.org/climate-deniers/how-tucker-carlson-was-terrible-and-effective-megaphone-climate-misinformation Media Matters Excerpts: Carlson used any excuse, such as new climate policies, initiatives, or convenings, to platform some of the most notorious climate deniers and controversial climate contrarians. For example, according to Media Matters’ internal database, from 2019 through the end of Carlson’s show in 2023, […]
Eating ‘insects may offer environmental benefits’: Brits would be told to eat bugs under bonkers green plans by civil servants
Brits would be told to eat bugs under bonkers green plans by civil servants The Sun, 1 May 2023 People would be told to eat insects under bonkers green plans by civil servants. They tried to sneak bushtucker-like proposals for a diet of bugs into PM Rishi Sunak’s eco blueprint last month. But it was spotted and […]
Analysis: ‘If fossil fuels are destructive, renewable alternatives are maybe even more so’
Terence Corcoran: A not-so-green reality behind green transition Financial Post, 3 May 2023 If fossil fuels are destructive, renewable alternatives are maybe even more so In the rollicking world of net-zero policy-making and initiatives, Canada aims to be a global leader. The country’s bankers, mining executives, auto companies, electricity producers and political leaders have merged into a […]
Green inflation & the end of capitalism: Lenin’s thesis being tested – ‘No surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency’
Tilak Doshi: Green inflation and the end of capitalism: Lenin’s thesis being tested Forbes, 29 April 2023 “By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily…. Lenin was certainly right; there is no […]
Study: Electric cars losing value twice as fast as gas vehicles – Survey: Growing portion of US shoppers are rejecting EVs
Electric cars losing value twice as fast as petrol vehicles – drivers may lose £25,000 Daily Express, 3 May 2023 The value of some of the most popular electric cars is depreciating at twice the rate of petrol cars, a new study has found. When someone buys a new car, the value will naturally decrease […]
New Paper: Global warming trend is ‘only one-half of the climate model simulations’ – Climate models ‘running way too hot’
https://mailchi.mp/b1938a77e8d2/new-study-global-warming-trend-only-half-of-climate-model-simulations-195763?e=0b1369f9f8 Global warming trend is ‘only one-half of the climate model simulations,’ says new paper Reason, 27 April 2023 By Ronald Bailey The latest suite of climate models collectively projects that the average temperature of the global atmosphere should be increasing at the rate of about 0.28–0.29 degrees Celsius per decade. But how do these model […]