Green-Scam

Processing alternative proteins has a large impact on global warming, study finds

Meat grown in a lab could be 25 times more costly for the environment than beef, a study has found.

‌Cultivated meat is grown using animal cells, eliminating the need for rearing and slaughtering animals.
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Its backers, including the Government, say it could also reduce the emissions from meat production, particularly methane from livestock, which accounts for around six per cent of global emissions.

THEY had a couple of hot days in Spain two weeks ago. According to the Guardian, it was a 1-in-40,000 years event, a claim based on ‘weather attribution’ computer models.

Weather attribution is a fairly new science, specifically introduced a few years ago to blame bad weather on global warming. These latest claims come, as most do, from an outfit called World Weather Attribution, (WWA), headed by climate scientists at Imperial College London who have long been at the forefront of climate alarmism.

The true economic, social, and political cost of the measures proposed by governments (in the West only) to destroy their nations’ businesses and jobs and to impoverish every household is becoming ever more visible. At last, therefore, a few brave souls in the scientific and academic communities are beginning to question what I shall call — with more than a little justification — the Communist Party line on climate change.

These campaigns unfurl the same way every time. Leftists float some outrageous invasion into personal freedom in the name of stopping climate change or enhancing safety. When conservatives react with indignation, the media gaslights the country, casting critics as a reactionary cabal itching to start a “culture war.”

IT’S amazing that a country as small as the Netherlands is the world’s second-largest exporter of food, but it won’t be for much longer. The government of left-wing extremist prime minister Mark Rutte is forcing farmers dramatically to reduce their use of fertilisers, which will result in many going out of business, and is also planning compulsory purchase of farms to shut them down. This action is to implement an order from the European Commission, the reason being that fertilisers release nitrous oxide NO2 into the atmosphere and it has been designated (not proved) to be a greenhouse gas. However, the volume of NO2 in the atmosphere is 335 parts per billion (no, that’s not a typo, it’s a b). This amount is so infinitesimally small as to be virtually non-existent, yet Rutte is determined to devastate his country’s food production to reduce it. How many of those 335ppb will be eliminated by this unilateral action? The recent successes in provincial elections of the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) political party, formed only four years ago, are a positive reminder that ordinary citizens will not accept such draconian measures. Nevertheless Rutte has doubled down on the plan and on May 2 was backed by the European Commission.

The unique freedom of car-driving is being pummelled by bourgeois anti-modernists.

Back in the early Eighties, two things revolutionised my mum’s life. The first was the appearance, nearby, of a vast supermarket. A gleaming metal-and-glass citadel of cheap, fresh produce. Imagine – bread, milk, fish, meat, fruit, veg and treats all under one roof. It was the stuff of a housewife’s dreams. The second was her first car. The rush of liberty she got from her wheezing, second-hand Ford Cortina is likely unimaginable to the 21st-century mind. Everyone has a car now, if not two. We take for granted being able to zoom everywhere, anytime, rain or shine. It was different then. The motorcar was no ordinary convenience – it was the great liberator from slog.

Back in February, I had a post on the troubles the wind industry was having with excessive warranty claims. Companies who pioneers in wind turbines, like Siemens and Vestas, had noted huge losses in their quarterly profit reports because of equipment failures under warranty. Coupled with declining orders, their answer was – of COURSE – more government subsidies to artificially prop (*snicker) them up until they got their act together.