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.
Despite the mixed signals from the 2020 election the exit polling indicated one clear loser: the Green New Deal, reports Steve Milloy. 1
The exit polling shows that the climate issue was simply not a voter priority anywhere. The high mark for climate seems to have been in Colorado, where 9% of voters said climate was their priority. But in states such as Florida, Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and even Biden's Delaware, a mere 3% of voters said climate was their priority.
Claims that Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its coral cover between 1995 and 2017 have received global media coverage were based on a new paper co-authored by controversial Australian researcher, Professor Terry Hughes of James Cook University. 1
Over 40,000 medical, public health scientists and medical practitioners have signed the Great Barrington Declaration, named after the Massachusetts town where it was authored on October 4.
The documents essential argument, contra the multi-government policy on Covid-19, is that the virus is not the danger we are being told it is; the data on Covid-19 are clear: we do not need to lockdown society, wreck the economy, or frighten people into death as they are scared to leave home for fear of catching Covid-19 or seek medical treatment for non-Covid -19 illness, which has happened. 1
Nuclear power is in retreat from Europe to Japan to the US as plants are being shuttered, governments move toward renewables, and key companies face financial troubles. Even some of the industry's biggest boosters believe nuclear is on the way out. 1
With the exception of China and a few other places, most nations are moving away from nuclear—existing power plants across the United States are being shut early, new reactor designs are falling foul of regulators, and public support remains in free fall. Now come the bankruptcies.
The main way in which the world employs trees to fight climate change is by cutting them down and burning them. Across much of Europe, countries and utilities are meeting their carbon reduction targets by importing wood pellets from the southeastern United State and burning them in place of coal. 1
High Temperatures in Greenland and Antarctica get headlines, cold temperatures are ignored. In climate change, only hot temperatures qualify as climate. Cold temperatures are just weather. When is the last time you saw 'coldest ever' in a headline? 1
California baked in two droughts about 1100 years ago, 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, new studies of past climates show. It's important to note that this was long before there were SUVs or coal fired power plants.
The looming Covid Depression has no room for more green energy silliness. We cannot afford to mollycoddle an aging failing technology. A hard dangerous new world is coming. To survive we will need cheap reliable energy—coal, gas, nuclear or hydro. 1
William Buckley had this to say about predictions. “I remember participating in a forum in the late 1970s, in which the principal speaker was the representative of The Economist (the London weekly). He had been designated its 'futurist.' The original idea was to devote an entire issue every ten years forecasting the primary concerns of the ensuing ten years. To prepare himself for that assignment, he had gone over the futurist issues of the past hundred years and learned that there was only this constant: the predicted concerns of the next decade turned out in no case—not ever—to be the actual concerns of the ensuing decade.” 1
The Energiewende in Germany has been a financial disaster, but, some in Congress want to use it as their model of green political correctness. 1
So what is Energiewende? Its a plan that resulted in aggressive and reckless expansion of wind and solar power, causing German consumers to shoulder the cost of feed-in tariffs in the form of sky-high electricity bills.
Researchers reported that the novel coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic survives for days on glass and stainless steel but dies within hours after landing on copper. 1
This finding shouldn't be too surprising. Copper and copper-alloy surfaces have been shown to kill a number of microorganisms including MRSA, E-coli 0157:H7, Clostridium difficile, influenza A virus , adenovirus and fungi. Independent laboratory testing has demonstrated that, when cleaned regularly microbial copper products kill greater than 99.9% of microorganisms. 2
In climate change, only hot temperatures qualify as climate. Cold temperatures are just weather. This was the opening sentence in an earlier report on high temperatures in Greenland and Antarctica getting headlines, while cold temperatures were ignored. 1
Now the same can be written about Siberia. Here is what Bridget Read wrote recently, "Not that you don't have a lot on your mind already, but may I suggest one additional topic of alarm for consideration: Siberia is on fire." 2