Keith Robertson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🍖 🥩

Look after your Mitochondria … Your Glycocalyx will look after itself. I climb the mountain to see the world; not so the world can see me 😎

[Keith Robertson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🍖 🥩 @KeithRobertson]

More panoramas, this time of the lovely RAC Boulders near Capel Curig, #Snowdonia What a warm day!!
https://t.co/VLTKfYt1NE

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

TWO LEADING PRINCETON, MIT SCIENTISTS SAY EPA CLIMATE REGULATIONS BASED ON A ‘HOAX’:

"William Happer, Professor Emeritus in physics at Princeton University, and Richard Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of atmospheric science at MIT:

“The unscientific method of analysis, relying on consensus, peer review, government opinion, models that do not work, cherry-picking data and omitting voluminous contradictory data, is commonly employed in these studies and by the EPA in the Proposed Rule.

All of the models that predict catastrophic global warming fail the key test of the scientific method: they grossly overpredict the warming versus actual data. The scientific method proves there is no risk that fossil fuels and carbon dioxide will cause catastrophic warming and extreme weather.

Climate models such as the ones that the EPA is using have been consistently wrong for decades in predicting actual outcomes.

To illustrate his point, he presented the EPA with a table showing the difference between those models’ predictions and the observed data."

The Epoch Times

[Keith Robertson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🍖 🥩 @KeithRobertson]

Generation Jones https://t.co/Yo0jA2Pkcm

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The Knepp Estate in West Sussex is the most famous rewilding project in Britain. It is on Springwatch, in the broadsheets, in a bestselling book. It is the place everyone points to when they want to show you what the land does the moment humans step back and stop farming it. Look at the nightingales, the purple emperors, the storks. Proof, apparently, that we should get the animals off the land and let it go wild.

There is one problem with using Knepp this way. You have to never look at what is standing in the fields.

Knepp is full of animals. Deliberately, by design, as the entire point.

When Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree gave up on intensive farming around 2000, on heavy Sussex clay that had run the estate £1.5 million into debt, they did the reverse. They brought more animals in, of more kinds, took down seventy miles of fencing, and let them roam. Old English longhorn cattle. Tamworth pigs. Exmoor ponies. Red, fallow and roe deer. Stand-ins for the wild aurochs, boar and horses we wiped out long ago. Their grazing, browsing, trampling, rootling and dung is the engine that builds the whole mosaic of scrub and wood pasture the rare birds need. Too few animals and it chokes into dense woodland. Too many and it flattens to bare grass. The cattle are the reason the nightingale is there at all.

And Knepp does not leave nature to it. There are no wolves in Sussex, so the herds would breed until they ate the place bare. So Knepp culls them every autumn. The deer are shot by a licensed stalker. The cattle and pigs go to a small organic abattoir. Knepp calls this, without flinching, stepping into the role of the missing apex predator.

A managed herd, grazing grass, culled before winter for meat. There is a word for that, and it is a very old one.

Then comes the part that should end the argument outright. They sell the meat. Knepp Wild Range: an online butchery and a restaurant, longhorn beef aged on the bone for weeks, Tamworth pork off pigs fattened on autumn acorns, venison, charcuterie cured in house. Heston Blumenthal calls the longhorn the best beef in the world. Knepp markets the lot as the most sustainable meat you can buy, and its own website argues, in words any carnivore would recognise, that pasture-fed meat is good for you and that grazing ruminants are one of the best carbon sinks on the planet.

So Britain's flagship rewilding project is a former arable farm, gone broke under the plough, rescued by swapping the crops for free-roaming cattle, pigs, ponies and deer, then counting them, culling them, and selling them as premium grass-fed steak.

This is the thing held up as the case for taking animals off the land.

Post a Knepp turtle dove with a caption about what nature does once we stop eating meat, and you have it exactly upside down. The turtle dove is sponsored by the longhorn. The green cathedral was built by a herd of cattle, and paid for, in part, by selling the surplus as steak.

None of which means we should turn all of Britain into Knepp. We shouldn't. It grows a fraction of the food the land could, and nobody lives on nightingales. But on the one principle it actually demonstrates, it is unanswerable, and it is the precise principle the people quoting it want dead. Put the grazing animals back and the wildlife pours in. Take them away and it drains out.

The poster child for the end of livestock is a working meat farm.

Go and read its menu.

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

A lot of people ask why Generation Jones insists on being its own thing.

After all, we’re usually lumped in with the Boomers.

The answer is simple.

We may have been born during the Baby Boom, but we did not have the same formative experiences as the older Boomers, and we did not have the same upbringing as Gen X.

We were the bridge generation.

The oldest Boomers remember where they were when President Kennedy was assassinated. Many of us do not. Kennedy was buried on my first birthday.

They were old enough to remember the optimism of the early 1960s, the moon landing as teenagers, and the cultural revolutions as participants.

Most of us arrived too late for that.

Likewise, Gen X grew up with personal computers, video games, cable television, and a world that was already becoming digital.

We didn’t.

Generation Jones grew up in a world that was almost entirely analog.

We used rotary phones.

We looked things up in encyclopedias.

We learned the Dewey Decimal System.

We used card catalogs.

We balanced checkbooks by hand.

If you wanted directions, you unfolded a map.

If you wanted to know something, you went to the library.

If you missed your favorite television show, you missed it.

There was no streaming service waiting for you.

But unlike previous generations, we didn’t stay there.

We had to adapt.

We watched computers move from climate controlled rooms into offices and homes.

We learned on mainframes and Wang systems.

We used Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect.

We fed giant floppy disks into computers that had less computing power than today’s coffee maker.

We learned email.

Then the internet.

Then cell phones.

Then smartphones.

Then social media.

And now artificial intelligence.

Most generations learn one world.

Generation Jones learned several.

That’s what makes us different.

We are one of the last generations that remembers life before digital technology became part of every waking moment, but we were young enough to adapt and thrive as it arrived.

We didn’t just witness the technological revolution.

We had to reinvent ourselves to keep up with it.

Every decade brought another transformation.

Every decade required new skills.

Every decade demanded adaptation.

Perhaps that’s why so many Generation Jones people are independent, resilient, and skeptical of anyone claiming the world has always been the way it is now.

We know better.

We’ve lived through too many versions of it.

Generation Jones isn’t defined by what we were born into.

We’re defined by everything we had to learn along the way.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Voltaire passed away today in 1778.

There are two quotes of his I always come back to:

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

and

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

[Maxine Pye @LiveAncestral]

“Plant foods have nutrients.”

Plant foods also have compounds that can block them.

That is the bit people leave out.

Phytates.
Lectins.
Oxalates.
Tannins.

These compounds can bind minerals or interfere with digestion, which means less of those nutrients may actually get absorbed.

So when someone says a plant food has iron, zinc, or calcium, that means nothing on its own.

The real question is:
how much of it is your body actually getting?

Your body does not care what is in the food.

Your body cares what it can break down, absorb, and use.

This is why people can eat the high fibre, plant heavy, “healthy” diet and still end up tired, drained, and low in key nutrients.

Then they get told to eat more plants.

More fibre.
More grains.
Less animal food.

And still feel rubbish.

That is the problem.

Nutrients on paper are not the
same as nutrients in a human body.

What issues have you had with plant foods?

[Maxine Pye @LiveAncestral]

They lied about saturated fat.
Not by accident. By design.

In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid researchers to shift the blame for rising metabolic problems onto fat.
Specifically saturated fat.

Documents proving this were published in JAMA Internal Medicine in 2016.
This is documented.

The guidelines that followed were built on that foundation.

Here is what saturated fat actually does…

It raises LDL. But it also raises HDL.
Context matters.

Replace saturated fat with refined carbohydrates and seed oils, which is exactly what the low fat advice pushed, and your triglycerides go up, HDL goes down, and the overall picture often gets worse.

I have eaten saturated fat every single day for three years.
Butter, tallow, fatty meat, lard.

My blood work is the best it has ever been.

The food humans ate for thousands of years did not suddenly become dangerous in 1977.

They needed something to blame.
Fat was convenient.

Main paper:
Kearns CE, Schmidt LA, Glantz SA.
Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research: A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents.
JAMA Internal Medicine, 2016

What else have they lied about?

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Latest Matt Phillips conversation :

@drmclphillips https://t.co/mRp1QGX31k

[Keith Robertson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🍖 🥩 @KeithRobertson]

The Ruminati – Volume One | The Ruminati https://t.co/SF3doPnYtu

[Keith Robertson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🍖 🥩 @KeithRobertson]

@MerlinTomkins Thanks Merlin 👍🏻

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Cancer was, in the 1920s, named the disease of the modern industrial age.

Otto Warburg, working in Berlin, demonstrated that cancer cells run on glucose. They prefer it. They run on it inefficiently, even in the presence of oxygen, in a way healthy cells do not. He won the Nobel Prize in 1931 for the work. The mechanism is now called the Warburg effect and sits in every oncology textbook published since.

In the 1970s, an American radiologist used Warburg's principle to build the PET scan. He injected radioactive glucose into the patient, waited twenty minutes, and watched on the screen where the glucose concentrated. The tumour lit up. The healthy tissue did not.

The machine has been used millions of times. It is, mechanically, a sugar detector. The thing it is detecting is the thing the cancer is eating.

The patient, after the scan, walks down the corridor to the oncology consultation. The oncologist explains the diagnosis. The dietitian, often in the same building, recommends wholegrain pasta, oat porridge, and fruit at every meal as part of a balanced recovery diet.

The mechanism is in the textbook. The textbook is on the shelf. The shelf is in the same building as the dietitian.

The two have not been introduced.

[Keith Robertson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🍖 🥩 @KeithRobertson]

@MerlinTomkins Any photos of the actual rash you can post?

[Keith Robertson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🍖 🥩 @KeithRobertson]

@MerlinTomkins I get a lot of them when sea-kayaking in Scotland. We wild-camp every night. Anne tends not to get any! I am improving my ‘on-land protocol’. We remove them and so far, none have developed a rash 🙂

[Derek Brockway - weatherman @DerekTheWeather]

These strange looking clouds were spotted in Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan this morning by one of our @BBCWthrWatchers

Asperitas clouds are named after the Latin word for "roughness".

They are rare and resemble rippling ocean waves in the sky >https://t.co/k8Pof7DjnA

[Merlin Tomkins 🇺🇦 @MerlinTomkins]

Yn y chwarel.

[Keith Robertson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🍖 🥩 @KeithRobertson]

@sonicboom49 @SamaHoole @BrendaAnnEstep Same as any drug addict 🙂

[Keith Robertson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🍖 🥩 @KeithRobertson]

@Andrew_Smales @SamaHoole @Shanthyer Misery is a choice. I��m not miserable 🙂 I don’t eat any ‘sugar’ too 😃

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

JOHN CLAUSER, 2022 NOBEL PRIZE PHYSICIST:

THE "CLIMATE CRISIS" IS PSEUDOSCIENCE:
THE CLIMATE IS SET BY EARTH'S SELF REGULATING CLOUD COVER, NOT CO2!

"Contra the IPCC and other major institutions, he argues that climate is primarily set by what he refers to as the “cloud cover thermostat,” a self-regulating process whereby more clouds start to enshroud the Earth when the temperature is too high, and vice-versa. Although he accepts observations showing that atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, he believes that gas’s effect on heat transfer is swamped by a great natural cloud cycle.
“It [the carbon dioxide] may or may not be made by human beings,” Ms. Clauser said. “It doesn’t really matter where it comes from.”
The physicist believes that objective science on climate has been sacrificed to politics. The preeminence of politics is all the worse, he said, because so much money has already gone to climate.
“We’re talking about trillions of dollars,” he said, adding that powerful people don’t want to hear that they’ve made “trillion-dollar mistakes.”
Concerns about such mistakes may have been relevant after Mr. Clauser was slated to speak before the U.N.’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) on July 25."

Dr. John Clauser, Nobel Prize Recipient for Physics, 2022

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