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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:

Bat Killers—White Nose Disease and Wind Turbines

Bats are long-lived, slow-breeding mammals that play vital roles in most of the Earth's ecosystems. Bats are important pollinators and seed dispersers in tropical regions, and serve as main predators of night flying insects in most parts of the world. Insect-eating bats are estimated to save farmers billions of dollars each year by providing pest control. (1)
- Monday, February 1, 2016

Solar Impulse 2—Delay in Around the World Flight

There's been a fair amount of hype surrounding the Swiss Solar Impulse 2 project, an attempt to go around the world in a purely solar powered aircraft, 'without using a drop of fossil fuel'. It is being billed as a landmark flight, signifying a milestone in green aviation. However, in an effort to support the 'green movement' some media folks have left out some details.
- Monday, January 25, 2016


Obama's Massive Regulatory Agenda

Federal agencies wrote a record breaking 81,611 pages of regulations last year to advance President Obama's massive regulatory agenda which includes tackling issues from global warming to health care. (1)
- Friday, January 15, 2016

Hidden Climate Change Stories

Investor's Business Daily (IBD) published a recent article titled “Three global warming stories the media don't want you to see.” Before giving the details they ask the question: Want to know the latest global warming news? Don't bother looking in US media. They can't be bothered with stories that contradict the man-made climate change narrative. But the truth is out there. (1)
- Monday, January 11, 2016

Resiliency of Nature—Life Adapts

The environment is an example that's been of concern for a long time. Yet nature has an amazing ability to heal itself and adapt to situations we would think are unbearable as the following examples show.
- Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Science and Chocolate- Impressive Results

A young man was walking along a beach by an ocean, when he found a bottle with a cork holding its contents in place. He picked it up, pulled out the cork, and out popped a genie.
- Thursday, December 31, 2015


California's Solar Issues

President Obama once praised Ivanpah as a shining example of America's clean energy future. “With projects like this one,” he said at the site of the solar plant just before construction started, “we're putting Americans to work producing clean home-grown American energy.” (1)
- Monday, December 14, 2015

Beijing's Red Smog Alert and China's Coal Issues

Beijing issued its first ever red alert for smog on December 7 urging schools to close and invoking restrictions on factories and traffic that will keep half of the city's vehicles off the road. The red alert, the most serious warning on a four-tier system adapted a little over two years ago, means authorities had forecast more than three consecutive days of severe smog. (1)
- Thursday, December 10, 2015


Spain's Green Energy Problems

Remember all developed countries going green and clean energy being everywhere? When you hear this says Joanne Nova, think of Spain. It is so green it's just passed a tax on solar panel generation, so solar users finally pay for grid backup. (1)
- Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Germany's Energiewende Lesson

Germany's energiewende is a raft of different energy policies that can be boiled down to the following plan: phase out nuclear energy while boosting wind and solar by guaranteeing producers long-term, above-market rates called feed-in tariffs. It was a plan that from the outset reflected all the unexamined beliefs centrel to the modern green movement, and it's been plagued by problems at every step. (1)
- Friday, November 27, 2015

China: Energy From Nuclear; United States: Energy From Wind and Solar

China, the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases continues to bring more and more coal fired plants online. The New York Times reports that an astounding 155 planned projects received a permit this year alone, with the total capacity equal to nearly 40 percent of that of operational coal power plants in the United States. (1)
- Sunday, November 15, 2015

Environmental Working Group-Supreme Scaremongers

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is in the middle of a 14-year losing streak when it comes to getting anything scientifically correct. The science losing streak continued last week when they fired up another, idiotic scare about a 'new ' chemical—their words, not mine—called triphenyl phosphate (TPHP), an almost supernaturally-safe component of nail polish, reports Josh Bloom. (1)
- Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Coffee- A Healthy Elixir

Coffee has a conflicting reputation—is it a guilty pleasure or a life saving elixir? Many studies over the past 35 years support it as a healthy addiction.
- Saturday, November 7, 2015

China- Pollution Hurts Agriculture

Three decades of rapid economic development in China has left a troubling legacy—widespread soil pollution that has contaminated food crops and jeopardized public health.
- Monday, November 2, 2015

Dust Can't Be Avoided

Research has shown that a single home in the country can accumulate up to 40 pounds of dust annually. Dust refers to the different types of organic and inorganic particles that can collect over a period of time in our homes.
- Friday, October 30, 2015

Antibacterial Soap Not So Effective

The ongoing debate over whether the antibacterial ingredient triclosan should be in soaps seems to have become an issue that is finally settled.
- Saturday, October 24, 2015

China's Invisible Scourge

A new study suggests air pollution is even worse than thought in China where pollution is sky-high everywhere. Some 83% of Chinese are exposed to air that, in America, would be deemed by the EPA either to be unhealthy or unhealthy for sensitive groups. Almost half of the population of China experiences levels of PM2.5 that are above America's highest threshold. Berkeley's Earth scientific director, Richard Muller, says breathing Beijing air is the equivalent of smoking almost 40 cigarettes a day. (1)
- Wednesday, October 21, 2015

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