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.
Counterfeit pharmaceuticals kill hundreds of thousands of people every year
Dietary 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 takes supplements. The estimated number of supplement products increased form 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
- Sunday, June 9, 2019
Climate change was supposed to have won the Labor Party the Australian election. But after having been routed by voters, its panicked leaders backed the mining of a coalfield bigger than the UK.
A recent examination of the World Bank Group's (WBG) active global energy portfolio concludes that the Group is not sticking to its own climate pledges and in reality is contributing to growing fossil fuel emissions. Heike Mainhard, an expert contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), assessed over 675 energy-linked operations of the WBG available on the Bank's websites. The assessment revealed that the Bank provides 3 times as much project finance to fossil fuels as it does to renewable energy. The Bank also continues to require governments to adopt investment incentives for coal and upstream oil and gas, flagrant contradictions to it original climate pledges. 1
The media have published story after story after story about the declining price of solar panels and wind turbines. People who read these stories are understandingly left with the impression that the more solar and wind energy we produce, the lower electricity prices will become. And yet that's not what's happening. In fact, it's the opposite reports Michael Shellenberger. 
South Australia was planning to build the world's largest thermal solar plant. There were notices in the press and the peer review in heralding the grand scheme. Claims were that the cost of the plant would be cut to one half, and produce three times more energy. 1
The plant received formal development approval from the state government on January 9, 2018. SolarReserve anticipated commencing construction in mid-2018 and taking 650 workers two and a half years to build it.
The world's developing nations are forecast to account for about 91% of the world's energy use growth to 2050 with the United States accounting for only about 1.5% of that growth. 1
The climate alarmist propaganda campaign and its media supporters use deception, distortion and dishonesty to attempt to conceal from the public the unequivocal and indisputable fact that US energy use and emissions performance are completely irrelevant to the huge global energy use and emissions that have occurred and will continue to occur in the future.
A new book from Susan Crockford called The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened (March 2019) perhaps could have been called, "How to Hide 30,000 Polar Bears." This is what the Green-Scare machine has apparently done under a mountain of smear and indignation. This is a story of the concealment and the backlash--the failure of science. 1
Professor Gordon Hughes examined the output of 282 wind farms, about 3,000 turbines in total, in the UK and a further 823 onshore wind farms and 30 offshore wind farms in Denmark. 1
The International Energy Agency released data that revealed the percentage of total global primary energy demand provided by wind and solar is 1.1 percent. 1 Hardly the kind of number derived from wind and solar lobbies.
Another report confirms what should have been obvious from the start: the more 'variable' wind and solar are introduced into any electricity system, the more they make it both more expensive and less reliable.
We think of Afghanistan as a nation, but it is not, at least not by our western understanding of the term reports Dan Rather. In truth, Afghanistan is a collection of provinces inhabited by tribes,. Although no ethnic group has a majority, Pashtuns and Tajiks make up roughly 40 and 30 percent of the population, respectively. Hazaras and Uzbeks constitute another 10 percent each. That said, many of the tribes have subsets, and even some of the tribal subsets have subsets. 1
Having wasted billions of euros on renewable energies, saddling consumers with ultrahigh power prices, and shutting down nuclear power plants, Germany has decided to shut down its coal power plants by the year 2038 and rely primarily on renewable energy. 1
Coal plants account for 40% of Germany's electricity, itself a reduction from recent years when coal dominated power production. The decision to quit coal follows an earlier bold energy policy move by the German government, which decided to shut down all of its nuclear power plants by 2022 in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster in 2011. 2
Body Mass Index (BMI) is a metric used for measuring health. It's calculated by dividing a person' weight in kilograms by the square of the person's height in meters. If you prefer to use English units, it's your weight in pounds divided by the square of your height in inches, then multiplied by 703.
BMI doesn't scale well. A tall man with the exact same build and body composition as a shorter man will have a higher BMI. Secondly, the measure ignores variation in body shapes.
Wind energy resources have been in sharp decline in regions all across the world, according to a study by Chinese researchers.
After analyzing data from more than 1,000 weather stations around the world, the researchers found that 67 percent had witnessed an extensive decrease in wind power potential over the course of nearly 40 years.
Scare the public to get their attention- truth be damned!
The world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better shape then we might think. That doesn't mean there aren't real concerns.
Major foundations handed nearly $4 billion to global warming activists, anti-fossil fuel campaigners and other environmentalists over the past eight years.
“The truth is the environmental left is a deep-pocketed and powerful force in American politics that is working to stop all natural gas, oil and coal production in the United States,,” said Institute for Energy Research (IER) president Tom Pyle.1
One of the largest militaries in the world, space exploration, nuclear power plants and bombs, ICBMs, stealth fighters, aircraft carriers, one of the largest economies, colonizing many places, etc. This is China, a developing country!
American lawns occupy some 30 to 40 million acres of land. Lawnmowers to maintain them account for some 5 percent of the nation's air pollution, probably more in urban areas. Each year more than 17 million gallons of fuel are spilled during the refilling of lawn and garden equipment, more than the oil that the Exxon Valdez spilled, reports Lakis Polycarpou. 1
The last few years have seen growing concern over what happens to solar panels at the end of their life. Consider the following statements:
- The problem of solar panel disposal will explode with full force in two or three decades and wreck the environment because it is a huge amount of waste which is not easy to recycle. 1
John Ioannidis reported in 2005 that most published medical research findings are false. 1 His statistical analysis and logic are impeccable and his paper has never been seriously refuted. Furthermore, he has had a tremendous impact: the paper has been viewed more than 2.5 million times.
You may have recently read or hard that the oceans were warming much faster than originally thought thus hastening our impending global warming. I certainly read such information in the San Francisco Chronicle.