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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:

Africa's Energy Crisis

Africa is a massive place, much bigger than most folks realize from just looking at a map. The African continent has a land area of 30.37 million square kilometers (11.7 million square miles), enough to fit in the US, China, India, Japan, Mexico and many European nations combined.

The population is greater than 1.2 billion and there are 54 sovereign African countries. The continent is undergoing an energy crisis.

- Sunday, February 5, 2023

Germany's Energy Lesson

Germany's Energy LessonGermany continues to intensify draconian measures to cut energy consumption. Consumers are now having to endure the excruciating economic pain of the country's intensifying energy crisis--brought on by decades of botched green energy policy and heavy reliance on Russian gas. Germany's natural gas reserves are emptying at record speed because wind and solar power have been on the scarce side over the past few weeks. 1
- Thursday, January 26, 2023

Sri Lanka: An Organic Farming Lesson

Sri Lanka: An Organic Farming LessonSri Lanka's president said the country was bankrupt in July 2022 as a financial crisis ravaging the country deepened. There were a number of factors causing the problem: Analysts mention excessive government debt, lack of foreign exchange, political corruption, the Covid-19 pandemic, and other factors However, one of the most serious was the government's sudden order, in April 2021, banning all import of chemical fertilizers and requiring that all farming be organic within 10 years. The result has been drastically reduced crop yields, plummeting exports, rising imports, and skyrocketing inflation. 1
- Sunday, January 15, 2023

Polls Defy Alarmists

Polls Defy AlarmistsLed by a Nobel Prize laureate, more than 1,000 scientists and scholars have signed a document declaring climate science is based more on personal beliefs and political agendas than sound, rigorous science. 1 The World Climate Declaration states 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," the declaration reads.
- Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Cold Records Get Ignored

Cold Records Get IgnoredThe majority of the world's major mainstream media, especially those that regularly spotlight hot weather events as signs of climate apocalypse do not address the fact that extreme cold stands in stark contrast to the theories of climate alarmists. When high temperature records are set, most of the media immediately let folks know. Yet when a cold record is set, you most likely will not hear about it. Cold records are being set at various places around the world, or in some cases no temperature change has been noted for decades. The following are some examples.
- Saturday, December 17, 2022

Al Gore Ad Nauseam

Al Gore Ad NauseamAl Gore urged dozens of leaders at the recent climate summit to cooperate on the issue of climate change giving world leaders an ultimatum. "Choose life over death," he said, "it is not time for moral cowardice." 1 This rhetoric is typical of Gore. Al Gore spews false prediction after false prediction on climate change. He then labels those who expose how often he's wrong as buffoons or terrorists. Gore is using scare stories to profit and gain power, and he's doing it by trying to terrify the public. 2 He has even compared 'climate change deniers' to the cops who didn't intervene at the Uvalde, Texas shooting. 3
- Sunday, December 4, 2022

Coal on a Rampage Except in the United States

Coal on a Rampage Except in the United StatesRemember the old days (a few months ago) when Western Europe and the US were telling developing nations (but not China or India) that coal is evil and must not be mined? 1 Remember seven years ago when Sierra Club's 'Beyond Coal' campaign, explained it this way:"The war on coal s not just political rhetoric, or a paranoid fantasy concocted by rapacious polluters. It's real and it's relentless. Over the past five years, it has killed a coal fired plant every 10 days."
- Thursday, November 24, 2022

Arctic Sea Ice Defies Scaremongers

Arctic Sea Ice Defies Scaremongers, Al GoreFor years scaremongers have been telling us that the Arctic would soon be ice free in summer. 1 In 2007 Professor Wieslaw Maslowski told us that northern polar waters could be ice free in summers within just five to six years. A year later, in 2008 Professor David Barber went one step further, saying the ice would be all gone that very summer.
- Friday, November 4, 2022

Great Barrier Reef Thriving Despite Doomsday Predictions

Great Barrier Reef Thriving Despite Doomsday PredictionsClimate alarmists have continually claimed that the Great Barrier reef is dying because of climate change. Unfortunately, for them, record coral cover and growth over the last two years is shooting a hole in that narrative. 1 The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) reported that the Great Barrier Reef's central section and northern section now have record coral cover. A natural event, a crown-of-thorns outbreak, prevented the southern section reaching record level too.
- Monday, October 3, 2022

Energy Poverty World Wide

Energy Poverty World WideEnergy poverty is not being able to afford adequate warmth, cooling, lighting, or the energy to power appliances that guarantee a decent standard of living and health. One shorthand rule is that a household is energy poor if it must spend more than 10 percent of its income on power. As renewable energy mandates are rising 'ecological' taxes have driven up electricity prices, and increases in energy poverty have become a problem in a number of countries. 1
- Saturday, September 17, 2022

Celebrities Private Jet Emissions

Celebrities Private Jet EmissionsFlying is in general the most carbon intensive way to travel per mile. Private plane travel is at an all time high; demand continues to outpace supply, and it's more accessible than ever. You've seen the headlines: celebrities' love of private air travel is an environmental nightmare. Yet as the ultra rich enter image-recovery mode--shifting responsibility to sponsors, friends, and renters--it's still business as usual when it comes to flights by private jets. 1 Researchers pinpoint a potential guideline: to keep things sustainable, everyone on Earth should limit their carbon footprint to a grand total of 2.3 metric tons per year. As for a private jet? It emits 2 metric tons of carbon dioxide per hour. To put one ton of carbon emissions into context, it's equivalent to driving the circumference of the Earth one time. 2
- Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Germany's Energy Crisis

Germany's Energy CrisisGermany has earmarked 200 billion euros ($220 billion) to fund industrial transformation between now and 2026, including climate protection, hydrogen technology and expansion of the electric vehicle charging network. 1 Now, after pouring billions of those dollars into green energy, Germany is facing economic calamity, including potential collapse should Russia shut off gas supplies. The collapse comes after Germany unveiled their plan to spend $220 billion to transfer all their energy to renewable sources.
- Sunday, August 21, 2022

Questionable Temperature Surface Station Measurements

Questionable Temperature Surface Station MeasurementsA recent study finds approximately 96 percent of US temperature Stations used to measure climate change fail to meet what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) considers to be 'acceptable' and uncorrupted placement by its own published standards. This nation-wide study follows up widespread corruption and heat biases found at NOAA stations in 2009, and the heat-bias distortion is even worse now. The study, published by The Heartland Institute, was compiled via satellite and in-person survey visits to NOAA weather stations that contribute to the 'official' land temperature data in the United States. The research shows that 96% of these stations are corrupted by localized effects of urbanization--producing heat-trapping, or heat-accentuating objects. Placing temperature stations in such locations violates NOAA's own published standards and strongly undermines the legitimacy and the magnitude of the official consensus on long-term climate warming trends in the United states. 1
- Friday, August 12, 2022

California's Ongoing Droughts

California's Ongoing DroughtsCalifornia is no stranger to drought; it is a recurring feature of the state's climate. They recently experienced a five year event from 2012-2016; other notable historical droughts included 2007-09, 1987-92, 1976-77, and off-and-on dry conditions more than a decade in the 1920s and 1930s. Presently, they are in year three of a serious drought. 1 Looking back in time it's evident that things could be much worse. Beginning about 1,100 years ago, what is now California baked in two droughts, the first lasting 220 years and the second 140 years. Each was much more intense than the mere six year dry spells that afflict modern California from time to time. 2
- Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Questioning Supplements

Questioning SupplementsDietary supplements are big business. Three out of four Americans take one or more on a regular basis, and for older Americans the fraction is four out of five. One in three children also take supplements. The estimated number of supplement products increased from 4,000 in 1994 to 50,000-80,000 today. Out of pocket expenditures for herbal and complementary nutritional products are about $50 billion, reports Henry Miller. 1 Supplements have become a massive industry with plenty of enthusiastic promoters. But for all the research telling us how certain vitamins and nutrients affect our bodies, taking supplements can't always deliver the results we may hope and expect. 2
- Friday, July 29, 2022

European Union- Fossil Fuel And Nuclear Are 'Green'

European Union- Fossil Fuel And Nuclear Are 'Green'The European Union (EU) parliament announced a decision that's causing the fraudulent climate change narrative to self-destruct. EU parliament backs labeling gas and nuclear investments as ‘green' and 'climate friendly'. The EU has been plunged into an energy crisis that's dividing EU nations and forcing a reevaluation on which energy sources are deemed renewable. 1 Since gas and nuclear power can be 'green' and natural gas in investments are now deemed sustainable, the EU hopes this will trigger more funding of those sectors but this would slow down the EU's shift to greener energy sources. 2
- Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Africa and Climate Activists

Africa and Climate ActivistsIf in the coming decades, Africa was to achieve rapid economic growth of the kind that China has experienced, it would lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. But as the rich world can attest, economic growth both requires energy consumption and leads to more of it, most of which must be provided by fossil fuels. 1 Without abundant fuel and power, prosperity is impossible: workers cannot amplify their production, doctors cannot preserve vaccines, students cannot learn after dark, goods cannot get to market. Nearly 700 million Africans rely mainly on wood or dung to cook and heat with, and 600 million have no access to electric light. Britain with 60 million people has nearly as much electricity generating capacity as the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, minus South Africa with 800 million. 2
- Monday, July 11, 2022

Blackouts On The Horizon

Blackouts On The HorizonTens of millions of Americans could be thrown into a summer of hell as a megadrought, heat waves, and reduced power generation could trigger widespread rolling electricity blackouts from the Great Lakes to the West Coast. 1 The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a regulatory body that manages grid stability, warned that power supplies in the Western US could be strained this summer as a historic drought reduces hydroelectric power generation due to falling reservoir levels and what's expected to be an unseasonably hot summer. Compound the hellacious weather backdrop with grids decommissioning fossil fuel power plants to fight climate change and their inability to bring on new green power generation, such as solar, wind and batteries, in time, is a perfect storm waiting to happen that will produce electricity deficits that may force power companies into rolling blackouts for stability purposes.
- Thursday, June 16, 2022

Questioning Computer Climate Models

Climate change prophecy hangs its hat on computer climate models. The models have gigantic problems. According to Kevin Trenberth, once in charge of modeling at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, "None of the models correspond even remotely to the current observed climate of the Earth." The models can't properly model the Earth's climate, but we are supposed to believe that, if carbon dioxide has a certain effect on the imaginary earths of the many models it will have the same effect on the real earth. 1
- Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Coal On The Rise

Coal On The RiseCoal is proving quite resilient despite steep declines in some economies. New reports show how coal remains a huge share of the global mix and the scope of new plants, especially in China. The International Energy Agency (IEA) projects a big rebound from the pandemic, with coal fired generation potentially hitting an all time high in 2022. 1
- Sunday, May 15, 2022

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