Business: Beyond Meat to lay off 1 in 5 workers
The business model never made any sense: Beyond lays off 19% of non-production workforce; reevaluates SKUs, China | Alt Meat (alt-meat.net) “Fake meat” sold at 2x to 3x the price…
Climate: We must put climate warning labels on meat
We must shame people against eating meat says a psyche study on propaganda effectiveness.
Climate: Half the world is already past “peak fossil fuels”
"Half of the world’s economies are already at least five years past a peak in power generation from fossil fuels"
Climate, Public health: Eating meat will kill you and the climate
Widely reported junk science nutrition study says we must stop eating red meat to avoid T2D and save the climate.
Follow up: Oregon’s wild fires very subdued in 2023
By the numbers, the 2023 wildfire season in Oregon was a quiet one — with the smallest number of acres burned since 2019 and well below average for the past…
Climate: We must reduce food production
Experts: Another FAO official, “Michel Criollo” (not his real name), remembered: “No one wanted to go to the next step of saying agriculture is a problem for the planet and…
Climate: We must ban everything
Over the past month I have shared actual recommendations from “experts” concerning what we are supposed to do about climate. Most of these proposals are unworkable and non-sustainable, will likely…
Follow up: Economic forecast models mostly useless
The New York Times also chimed in on the poor forecasting record of economists Monday in a separate story, “New Normal or No Normal? How Economists Got It Wrong for…
Models followup: Hurricane Otis forecast completely wrong
The 24 hour forecast for Hurricane Otis, lower lines, versus what actually happened – dashed line shooting almost straight up: Predicting the future often ends in failure. In this case,…