Tonight's #Bulletproof Dinner

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For tonight's bulletproof dinner I made:

  • Lamburgers (not a typo)
  • Broccoli Florets
  • Bulletproof Tea
I bought vegetarian-fed locally-raised (they were out of Icelandic) ground lamb at Whole Foods and rolled it into patties (similar to what one would do with ground beef), and cooked the lamburgers in an iron skillet in a mixture of salted Kerrygold butter, honey, extra virgin olive oil, and coriander.  When they were done I spread a very thin layer of Laughing Cow Creamy Swiss cheese on top.  (That last bit's not so bulletproof, but adds a nice texture and an additional nice taste.)

The broccoli florets were bought frozen from Harris Teeter, and steamed in the microwave using water and two bowls placed one on top of the other for four minutes.  Ideally these would be fresh but it's fairly close.

The bulletproof tea is PG Tips decaffeinated (since it's after 3pm) with a little bit of honey and unsalted Kerrygold butter.

I had to eat on a paper plate since all my plates are in the dishwasher as I've been doing so much good cooking!

So Global Warming Makes The Stratospheric Arctic Winters... Colder?

Ozone

So, it appears, according to environmental scientists, that the ozone in the Arctic has actually disappeared to the point where there's an ozone hole similar to the one above Anarctica.

From the article:  "It was continuously cold from December through April, and that has never happened before in the Arctic in the instrumental record."

Of course, the standard argument will now be that it's "climate change" and that you can have sections or the earth or particular seasons that are making things worse in others.  This is now the standard argument since "global warming" as a concept does not jive with the fact that things tend to be a lot colder (in many places) than warming would suggest.

The earth and its weather is a chaotic system, with more variables than can possibly be measured at the moment.  (It should be noted that models are getting better, though that means that global warming - again - may not be as large a problem as originally thought.)  Until we have the data to back it up (through long term measurements, instead of relying solely on ice cores - which, incidentally, show that the earth has warmed considerably in the past!) we've got a lot to study before a verdict can be drawn.

(Picture from the article.)