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Jack Dini

Jack Dini is author of Challenging Environmental Mythology. He has also written for American Council on Science and Health, Environment & Climate News, and Hawaii Reporter.

Most Recent Articles by Jack Dini:

Beware Of Predatory Journals

Scientific journals release the results of scientific studies in the form of papers which, we are told are reviewed prior to publication by peers-- fellow scientists in the field who are supposed to scrutinize the manuscript and ensure that bad science doesn't get a pass. A predatory journal only pretends to do so. It exists solely to make money. It's like a parasite on the back of the scientific endeavor. What it publishes is of questionable quality. (1)


- Monday, March 18, 2024

CO2- Not So Villainous After All

Carbon dioxide is a gas that is of fundamental importance to life as we know it. If its concentration in the atmosphere becomes too low, the bulk of the living things on the surface of the earth will die, and the surface will become as barren as the other planets in the solar system. (1)

- Thursday, February 29, 2024

Germany and Great Britain--Canaries in the Net Zero Mine?

Something rather amazing is happening across Western Europe, although American media outlets would like to pretend that nothing is happening. The sea change is that ordinary people are pushing back against green policies that will destroy farming and also the food supply. (1)

- Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Never-Ending Wrong Doomsday Predictions

Humanity has only a few years to act before the world may irreversibly plunge into an environmental catastrophe of global proportions, climate experts warned in a recent report. Their calls are muffled, however, by dozens of past dramatic predictions that have failed to pan out. (1)

- Thursday, February 1, 2024

Africa's Energy Issues

The African continent has a land area of 30.37 million sq km (11.7 million sq mi)--enough to fit in the US, China, India, Japan, Mexico and many European nations, combined. In other words it's enormous. (1)

The population of sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest growing in the world, expected to double by 2050. To put that in perspective, by mid-century one in four people on the planet will be in sub-Saharan Africa. Considering the significance of the African population on the global stage, and the need to connect these people to clean and reliable energy, the continent poses a significant challenge for climate goals on a global scale. (2)

- Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Consensus Debunked on 97 percent of scientists agree that Earth's climate is experiencing dangerous warming caused by human activities

We are repeatedly told that 97 percent of scientists agree that Earth's climate is experiencing dangerous warming caused by human activities. (1)

John Kerry, Biden's climate czar, is a leading proponent of this statement: "97 percent of peer reviewed climate studies confirm that climate change is happening and that human activity is largely responsible."

- Sunday, December 24, 2023

Climate Model Failures

IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) models rooted in assumption that we humans can and do control the Atlantic Ocean's circulation with our daily activity CO2 emissions have been wrong since the mid-1980s. Why should we still believe in them asks Kenneth Richard. (1)

The latest IPCC report continues to say it is 'very likely' the Atlantic Meridional Ocean Circulation (AMOC), a fundamental climate parameter, will weaken (and unleash cooling, catastrophic storms, drought, floods) in the 21st century.

- Sunday, December 10, 2023

Regions Around the World Failing to Cooperate With Global Warming Alarmism

A number of regions of the world fail to cooperate with global warming instructions.

Antarctica: The continent of Antarctica is a difficult hunting ground for climate apocalypse fanatics since there has been barely any overall warming over the last 70 years. The exception is West Antarctica where there has been some local climate variation, possibly helped by significant geothermal activity. Of course, this is enough for a scare or two while clearly not mentioning the geothermal activity. (1)

- Tuesday, November 28, 2023

China Coal Wrecks Havoc on Climate Goals

China is building new coal power so fast that energy transition by the West is meaningless. Even if the US went completely off coal tomorrow, its plants would be more than replaced. (1)

There are a total of 3,092 operating coal plant units in China. As of January 2023 the province of Shandong, which lies to the south of Beijing, houses the greatest number of coal power plants, at over 400 units.

- Saturday, November 18, 2023

Wind Power on Shaky Ground

America is preparing to spend trillions of taxpayer dollars to install offshore wind turbines for illusory benefits.

Advocates claim offshore wind energy is clean and sustainable. Wind certainly is, but that doesn't mean getting energy from wind is. (1)

- Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Wash Your Pillowcases

The cleanliness of bed sheets and pillowcases is often overlooked yet nothing in your bedroom is as dirty as your pillowcase. Studies have shown that after just one week of use, pillowcases harbor bacteria levels surpassing those found on a toilet set by a staggering nearly 20,000 times. (1)

- Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Living Costs Escalate During European Union Energy Transition

Rising living expenses in the European Union (EU) are causing conflicts over climate mitigation efforts, with members like Germany and others expressing concerns. (1)

Consistent;y higher living expenses have deepened a rift among and within EU members about tackling climate change and moving away from oil, gas, and coal.

- Monday, October 23, 2023

Solar System Heating Up

Mysteriously warming is happening across the solar system. The one common factor is at the center of it all: the sun.

Neptune's giant moon Triton is the first body in the solar system where global warming could be detected. According to measurements, the atmosphere pressure doubled and the temperature rose 3 degrees Kelvin.


- Friday, October 6, 2023

More bad news for alarmists

International scientists have jointly signed a declaration dismissing the existence of a climate crisis and insisting that carbon dioxide is beneficial to Earth. A total of 1,609 scientists and professionals from around the world have signed the declaration, including 321 from the United States.

"There is no climate emergency," the Global Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) said in its Would Climate Declaration made public in August. "Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures." (1)


- Sunday, September 24, 2023

Antarctic Ice Shelves Defying Alarmists

New studies affirm Antarctica has not been cooperating with either the global warming or 'polar amplification' narratives. (1)

The Antarctic continent has not warmed in the last seven decades despite a monotonic increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases. (2)

Mankind has emitted fully 65% of our total carbon emissions since the year 1980, and yet it has not done much at all to the melt rate of the ice shelves of Antarctica. 

- Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Coal Consumption Around the World

China consumes 55% of the world's coal, and that consumption continues to rise. As a whole, The Asia Pacific region is responsible for 81% of the world's coal consumption, as well as the vast majority of the world's ongoing carbon dioxide emissions.

China's reliance on coal fired power generation increased during the first half of 2023 as continued drought severely reduced hydroelectric power in the southern provinces. (2)

- Saturday, September 2, 2023

Wind Problems World-Wide

People don't like bird bashing giants and thumping infrasound. And who could have seen that spending trillions turning the electricity grid into a giant weather machine would make energy costs higher, thus piling wood on the inflationary fires that have come back to bite wind turbine manufacturers? (1)

The wind industry should be flying high but instead is entrapped by a cornucopia of troubles. Projects are too often held up by red tape and nimbyism, while contracts signed years ago have become oneous due to material and logistics cost inflation. Anywhere you look around the world, wind is facing serious problems.





- Saturday, August 26, 2023

Climate Models Still Lacking

Climate change prophecy hangs its hat on computer climate models, yet these models have gigantic problems.

With the enthusiasm of religious zealots and the ruthlessness of the power mad, a climate industrial complex is driving energy policy on the basis of a hundred or so badly flawed computer models. More than 95 percent of these digital prognosticators have proven unreliable in predicting climatic trends. Yet, they are used anyhow. (1)

- Saturday, August 5, 2023

Nuclear On The Rise

Two recent headlines:

• Duggan Flanakin, "Italy returns to nuclear sanity. Shouldn't we?", nuclearenergy.org, May 15, 2023

• Kristen Walker, "The US must take note: Sweden backpedals on renewable energy. Sweden is going nuclear," realclearenergy.org, July 6, 2023


- Monday, July 24, 2023

Coal Usage Hits Record High

The world set a new record for energy use in the last year. And even though renewables are being installed at the fastest rate they have ever been, it isn't enough to keep up with the growing demand for energy let alone to 'convert' the world to net zero. (1)

Overall, despite the best efforts to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, the world remains 'stuck' getting 82% of its energy from them. We are a fossil fueled world. Solar and wind power make up just 6% of our energy needs.

- Wednesday, July 12, 2023

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