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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:

Britain: Canary In a Wind Farm Warning?

Last year, the Biden administration set an ambitious new goal for the US: to deploy 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind capacity by the year 2030, increasing US offshore capacity more than seven hundred times. The UK already has 15 GW of offshore wind, more than 300 times as much as the US, and the experience should be a warning to Americans. (1)


- Friday, June 30, 2023

Net Zero Futility

Net zero and its corollary the "energy transition" are talked about often and so loosely that many take them for granted as worthy goals that could be accomplished with greater buy-in from political and business leaders. But two new reports form the utility industry should put an end to such loose talk. (1)

The Electric Power Research Institute, the research arm of the US electric utility industry, released a report titled "Net Zero 2050: US Economy Wide Deep Decarbonization Scenario Analysis." This report concludes that the utility industry can't attain net zero. The study showed that clean electricity plus direct electrification and efficiency are not sufficient by themselves to achieve net zero economy wide emissions.

- Monday, June 19, 2023

John Kerry: Climate Agitator


John Kerry leads an international jet-set life that might exhaust a runway model. If President Biden's special envoy for climate was not in Washington or relaxing at his mansion near Nantucket Harbor, he could be found in Brazil, Panama, the Bahamas, Germany, or Iceland. And that's just in February and March. (1)

In his effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Kerry has flown hundreds of thousands of miles, sometimes commercially, sometimes on his own private jet. In just nine months last year he logged more than 180,000 miles, emitting some 9.5 million pounds of carbon.

- Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Private Jet Emissions of Rich and Famous Hypocrites


Flying 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.

A number of celebrities don't 'walk the walk' when it comes to climate change--they just talk the talk.

In the first half of 2022, 10 celebrities released a staggering 3,376 metric tons of carbon emissions. That's about 482 times the average person's annual emissions. Average flight times came in at just 72 minutes with an average 67 miles traveled per flight.


- Sunday, May 7, 2023

The Pause in Global Warming


There has been no rise in global temperatures from July 2015 to March 2023.

This fact-based claim draws on satellite readings from the University of Alabama in Huntsville that measures temperatures in the troposphere, a much more accurate method of keeping score than the shoddy records produced by ground based weather stations. (1)

- Friday, April 28, 2023

Germany's Continuing Energy Fiasco

Most Germans used to be enthusiastic supporters of the country's Energiewende (transition of renewable energies),especially in the early days when they were brazenly misled about the endeavors humungous costs and technical limitations. (1)

Those days are gone. Catastrophic report: whopping 88% of those surveyed see move to green energies as unachievable.

As the government gears up to try to pass legislation that would force most home owners to carry out extensive renovation to their homes and upgrades to their heating systems, the Energiewende is suddenly no longer looking like a bargain and is no longer welcome by the vast majority of Germans. (1)

- Monday, April 17, 2023

Coal On The Rise In Spite of Death Warnings

President Biden said recently that "we're going to be shutting coal plants down all across America having wind and solar."

Obituaries for coal have been announced ad nauseam, most recently at last year's UN climate change COP26 summit in Edinburgh. Yet there has been an eight fold price surge in coal since September 2020 to over $430 per ton two years later from prices that ranged between $50-$150 a ton through the past decade. This was led by a resurgence of demand after the pandemic lockdowns--especially in China and India, the worlds two largest coal consumers accounting for two-thirds of the world total--but also in Japan, South Korea, Europe and the US. (1)

- Monday, April 10, 2023

What Species Decline?

Two independent groups of scientists have destroyed the always improbable claim that vertebrates across the planet have declined by 69 percent since 1970 made by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London. (1)

A group of Canadian biologists has shown that the figure is a statistical freak. They reveal that the estimate is driven by 2.4 percent of wildlife populations, adding, "If these extremely declining populations are excluded, the global trend switches to an increase."

- Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Climate Deaths Surprises

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Climate continues to be a challenge, but climate related deaths have fallen over 99 percent since 1920. (1)

Bjorn Lomborg reported that climate related deaths averaged 485,000 a year in the 1920s. Between 2010 and 2019 there was an average of 18,362 annual climate related deaths. In 2020, the death rate dropped to 14,893. (2)

So, adjusted for population we went from 255.3 deaths per million in 1920 to 1.9 per million in 2020, a 99.25 percent decrease. In other words, for every climate related death in 2020, we had 133.6 deaths in 1920.

- Saturday, February 25, 2023

Wind Grid Problems

New research studying almost 3,000 wind turbines suggests wind turbines erected in Britain will only last half of their claimed lifespan.Results reveal that onshore and offshore wind turbines degrade differently. For onshore, the monthly load factor or the amount of electricity generated as a percentage of nameplate capacity, drops from an already low 24 percent in the first year to a meager 11 percent after 15 years. Offshore wind, meanwhile, declines more drastically from 40 percent in year one to 15 percent after ten years. This should not be surprising, as saltwater is an incredibly hostile environment. (1)

- Sunday, February 19, 2023

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

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