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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:


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
- Thursday, January 19, 2017

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.
- Thursday, January 12, 2017

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.
- Wednesday, January 4, 2017

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
- Monday, December 26, 2016

Adapting to Toxic Environments

Many organisms have evolved tolerance to natural and human generated toxins. The most recent examples are killfish in some highly polluted Eastern rivers who have evolved to survive levels of toxins up to 8,000 times the lethal dose.
- Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Antarctica Continues to Baffle Alarmists

A hundred years of cars, planes, wars, and five billion more polluting people, and there's nothing to show for it. Old log books kept by Scott and Shackleton show that Antarctic sea ice hasn't changed much since 1912 reports Joanne Nova. 1
- Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Solar's Darkening Sky

Dozens of solar focused companies around the globe have disappeared through bankruptcy, insolvency, or just shutting their doors since 2009 when prices of solar panels plunged as competition from China increased. In addition, other solar installations have not delivered their promised capacity or have experienced a variety of mishaps.
- Saturday, November 26, 2016

Bumps in Solar Roadways

Solar Roadways Incorporated is a start-up company in Sandpoint, Idaho aiming to develop solar powered road panels to form a smart highway. (1)
- Thursday, November 10, 2016

Hillary Clinton's Solar Energy Promise Will Help the Chinese

Hillary Clinton announced goals for increasing US reliance on renewable energy, pledging to have more than a billion solar panels installed nationwide within four years of taking office. She also pledged that the US would generate enough clean renewable energy to power every home in the country within 10 years of taking office. (1)
- Thursday, November 3, 2016

War On Coal Can't Be Stopped

How's the ground breaking, world leading Paris agreement going? Answer: not so well if you look at coal. If you only focused on the United States, you might think coal's days were numbered. But that's not true globally. Far from it. Coal consumption has actually been accelerating worldwide since the end of the 1990s.
- Sunday, October 30, 2016

Arctic Sea Ice Not Disappearing

Announcements that the Arctic sea ice would soon disappear have been among the most favorite claims made by publicity seeking climatologists and leading American politicians. According to them, there isn't supposed to be any Arctic sea ice today. (1)
- Thursday, October 20, 2016

Top American Fears- Corrupt Government and Terrorist Attacks, Not Climate Change

Chapman University recently completed its third annual Survey of American Fears (2016). The survey asked respondents about 65 fears across a broad range of categories, including fears about the government, crime, the environment, the future, technology, health, natural disasters, as well as fears of public speaking, spiders, heights, ghosts, and many other personal anxieties. (1)
- Monday, October 17, 2016

Desalination of Seawater—Much Needed Help Worldwide

The world is on the verge of a water crisis. Rainfall shifts caused by climate change plus the escalating water demands of a growing world population threaten society's ability to meet its mounting needs. By 2025, the United Nations predicts 2.4 billion people will live in regions of intense water scarcity, which may force as many as 700 million people from their homes in search of water by 2030, reports Thomas Sumner. (1)
- Friday, October 14, 2016

Air Pollution Blown Out Of Proportion

The forest fires and haze disaster in Southeast Asia last year may have led to the deaths of more than 100,000 people according to a study by researchers from two United States universities. A vast majority of the cases were in Indonesia, where fires were deliberately set to clear land for agriculture. (1)
- Friday, October 7, 2016

Antarctica- Confusing the Alarmists

Antarctica, the continent that covers Earth's south pole contains more frozen water than all other deposits of glacial ice on the planet combined. It's quite huge; 42% larger than the entire United States in size.
- Friday, September 23, 2016

E-waste- A Major Pollution Issue

Electronic product innovations satisfy many needs, including the desire of people to stay connected around the globe. As new products are continually introduced into the marketplace, consumers replace existing electronic products that are damaged or simply outdated. The resulting mass of electronic products discarded is becoming the fastest growing waste stream in the world leading to polluted environments. (1)
- Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Climate Thought Police--Akin To George Orwell 1984

Professor tell students: "Drop class if you dispute man-made climate change. We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change. Three professors co-teaching an online course called "Medical Humanities in the Digital Age" at the University of Colorado- Colorado Springs recently told their students via e-mail that man-made climate change is not open for debate, and those who think otherwise have no place in their course. (1)
- Saturday, September 3, 2016

Bats' Nemesis—Wind Turbines

Bats are known to be some of the world's saviest aerial acrobats. Using their mysterious sonar system and shape-shifting wings, bats adeptly swerve and swoop and dive in flight to avoid collisions with both stable and moving objects.
- Friday, August 26, 2016

Questioning Organic

Everywhere we are urged to go organic: we are told it is more nutritious, it improves animal welfare and helps the environment. In reality, that is mostly marketing hype, say Bjorn Lomborg. (1)
- Friday, August 12, 2016

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