Jack Dini

Questioning Recycling Of Wind Turbine Blades

Although wind power achieved just 0.39% of the world's total energy consumption as of 2013, it is assumed that a rapid expansion of wind power will ultimately be environmentally advantageous both due to its reputation as a 'clean' energy and because of the potential to contribute to reduced CO2 emissions.¹

Scientific Expeditions Get Stuck in Arctic and Antarctic Ice

The science team of Canadian Research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen involving 40 scientists, five universities and $17 million in taxpayer funding to study climate change canceled the first leg of the 2017 Arctic expedition due to extreme ice condition in the south.

Our Sense Of Smell Is Better Than Originally Thought

Biology textbooks are riddled with passages relating how bad humans are at perceiving odors. As the oft-quoted statistic goes, humans can only perceive '10,000 odors', a number that sits particularly well with some dog-lovers, who like to remind us that canines have 300 million odor receptors, while humans only sport 6 million. But a study in 2014 revealed that humans might not be as olfactorily challenged as we once thought because, as it turns out, we can perceive more than 1 trillion odors—and that's a conservative estimate. ¹

Questioning Carbon Accounting For Lakes And Rivers

People are willing to set up a two trillion dollar global market to read carbon, but their carbon models are so primitive that giant 'oops' moments are now happening on a regular basis reports Joanne Nova. ¹

Productive Energy Workers Are In Coal And Natural Gas, Not Solar

Last year, the solar industry employed more Americans (373,807) than coal (160,119), while wind power topped 100,000 jobs.

Eat Fruits and Vegetables—Don't Believe The Scaremongers

Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can help lower calorie intake, reduce risks for heart disease, obesity and Type 2 diabetes, and protect against certain cancers. With all these benefits, why do some consumers choose to avoid produce? Approximately three-quarters of people in the US don't eat enough fruits and vegetables.

Too Many Elephants at Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park

Elephant numbers across Africa have been declining rapidly under the onslaught of ivory poachers. However, one national park faces an entirely different problem. Hwange's elephant population just keeps growing. But what, on the face of it, might appear to be good news has become an equally serious problem, one that is more a threat to the elephants long-term survival than ivory poaching. Quite simply, Hwange has too many elephants reports Martin Dunn. ¹

Save Cormorants- Kill Eagles-- A Double Standard

The new eastern span of the bridge which crosses the San Francisco Bay between Yerba Buena Island and Emeryville was officially opened in September 2013.

Asian Air Pollution Is Our Pollution

Air pollution from China, India and several other Asian countries has wafted across the Pacific Ocean over the past 25 years, increasing levels of smog in the western US according to recent research. ¹

Listeria Pathogen Can Be Fatal

Listeria monocytogenes bacteria can cause a potentially fatal disease in people with vulnerable immune systems. Listeria infection is the third leading cause of death from food poisoning in the United States. About 1,600 people get sick from Listeria each year and about 260 die.¹

Bacteria Are Everywhere

Bacteria are tiny, one-celled organisms-- generally 4/100,000 of an inch wide (1 micron) and somewhat longer in length. What bacteria lack in size, they make up in numbers. We can't avoid them.

Green Lunacy—Wood Biomass

The use of wood for electricity generation and heat in modern technologies has grown rapidly in recent years

Polar Bears Doing Quite Well

Corals: More Resilient Than Many Have Thought

Green Energy Scandals Cost Taxpayers Billions

A comprehensive report by the non-government organization Carbon Market Watch concluded that large companies are making billions from emissions certificates while CO2 emissions aren't improving at all. The study looked at the 20 strongest countries from 2008 to 2015. The figures show how easy it is to make money from pollution and just how much the lobby-watered down CO2 trading system has failed. ¹

Were World Leaders Duped Over Manipulated Global Warming Data?

The world's leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change reports David Rose. ¹

Herbal And Dietary Supplements-- Buyer Beware

Americans spend more than $32 billion a year on more than 85,000 different combinations of vitamins, minerals, botanicals, amino acids, probiotics, and other supplement ingredients. ¹

Bugs, Chemicals and Toxins in Food

Food is a common necessity in our everyday lives. We constantly have to make decisions about food for both ourselves and our families. There are some little known facts about food. All foods contain chemicals. They also can contain bugs, bug parts and toxins.

Ocean Islands Are Not Sinking

Once a year or so, journalists from major news outlets travel to the Marshall Islands, a remote chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate change.

Environmental Fears

Since the 1960s a strange, pervasive fear has swept across the developed world, the illusion that there is a miasma of poison threatening to invade our bodies. It's changed the food we eat, the air we breathe, the toys we give our children. ¹