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.
The world is on fire and not just from forest fires or volcanoes. Across the globe hundreds of fires burn low and slow on dirty fuel beneath the earth, smouldering for decades or even centuries. 1
Underground coal fires are centuries old infernos that issue thick billows of ash and smoke, and generate sinkholes that consume roads and homes without warning.
Research in many places shows that people are very worried about climate change and they are broadly supportive of implementing policies to tackle this issue. However, people struggle to accept the personal impact policies may have on them and are reluctant to put up the cash to implement the policies.
A placebo is a substance or treatment which is designed to have no therapeutic value. Common placebos include inert tablets like sugar pills, inert injections like saline, sham surgery, and other procedures. In general, placebos can affect how patients perceive their condition and encourage the body's chemical processes for relieving pain and a few other symptoms, but have no impact on the disease itself.
An eight year project that tried to reproduce the results of key cancer biology studies has finally concluded and its findings suggest that similar to research in the social sciences, cancer research has a replication problem.
The effort to replicate nearly 200 preclinical cancer experiments that generated buzz from 2010 to 2012 found that only about a quarter could be reproduced. 1
Researchers with the Reproducibility Project Cancer Biology aimed to replicate 193 experiments from 53 top cancer papers published from 2010 to 2012. But only a quarter of those experiments were able to be reproduced. 2
There is a special place in the underworld for those who promote anxiety, desperation, and terror in the most vulnerable. A place where the infernal warmth is particularly torrid. And one does not have to spend much time looking for candidates for this netherworld—the front page of the many newspapers will do fine, reports Charles Rotter. 1
Where are the 'rapidly warming winters' this time around? It seems global warming is behaving badly, in parts of the Arctic at least.
Something is very wrong with the Arctic. Instead of melting as predicted by the IPCC it continues to capture ships.
The latest includes more than two dozen cargo vessels that got stuck in Russia's Arctic ice and had to wait for ice-breakers to come to their rescue, after an inaccurate forecast for the country's Met Office. Shipping firms blamed the Russian Met office for a forecast that failed to predict the early ice. 1
China went from dominating green energy to begging Americans for coal. Last year President Xi Jinping announced that Communist China was going to go carbon neutral by 2060. Like every Communist 5 year plan, it began with lies and ended in disaster, reports Daniel Greenfield.1
The 14th Renewable Energy Development Five Year Plan would have China dominate the green energy industry and increase its share of non fossil fuel energy from 15% to 20%. That was last year. This year, China is importing American coal to keep the lights on in its cities.
Environmentalists' bright promises of utilizing solar energy to power the world are darkening quickly as it becomes clear how much dangerous trash is generated with tons of old panels being discarded in landfill sites, reports Rob Lyons. 1
The millions of solar panels headed for landfill are a veritable toxic cocktail of gallium arsenide, tellurium, silver, crystalline silicon, lead, cadmium, and heavy earth metals.
Just two years ago, many of Germany's mainstream outlets declared sea ice at the South Pole was melting at an 'astonishing ' rate. German national daily Suddeutsche Zeitung reported in June 2019 that Antarctic sea ice had shrunk 1.8 million square kilometers, writing 'the massive disappearance of ice is astonishing.'
Today, two years later, German climate science site Die Kalte Sonne looks at recent sea ice developments in Antarctica—noting that the climate ambulance chasing mainstream media like the Suddeutsche Zeitung have since mysteriously stopped reporting on Antarctica. Here's why: Sea ice at the south Pole has rebounded over the past two years to levels seen 30 years ago. In June 2021, Antarctic sea ice was even well above normal. 1
Hot temperatures qualify as climate and these days we hear a lot about 'record breaking' temperatures. When was the last time you saw 'coldest ever' in a headline? In spite of all the scare stories about a warming Earth, there are indications that perhaps folks should be more concerned about cooler weather.
Climate scientist Dr. Willie Soon says that global cooling is a far greater source of concern than global warming. Humanity can solve a lot of problems including overheating, but the problem of a 'little ice age' like that of the 1700s, 'those problems are much harder to solve,' he said.1
Climate activists and their media allies have made coral reefs a poster child for the asserted climate crisis.
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Energy 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 countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom. It is estimated that 50 million European households now qualify. 1
Europe and the United States have executed a 'blanket ban' on supplying inexpensive and reliable energy to people living in poor countries by ending funding for energy infrastructure projects that rely on natural gas. 1
As we rush toward the impossible zero electric power emissions by 2030, our coal burn is rebounding to an estimated 600 million tons a year. Speaking of trillions, that is 1.2 trillion pounds of coal, reports David Wojick. 1
Besides this, coal producers are actively pursuing 2.2 billion tons per annum of new mine projects around the world, a growth of 30 percent from current production levels.
Many global warming alarmists want more destructive weather events to validate their assumptions whether they admit it or not,. But what happens when they can't get their 'dirty weather' as Al Gore calls it? Then they'll just have to define down what a disaster is. 1
Many years ago, Gore swore that 'the science is extremely clear now.' Global warming was 'magnifying the 'destructive power' of the 'average hurricane,' he said. Man's impact on the environment 'makes the duration, as well as the intensity of the hurricane stronger.'
May is typically the busiest month for twisters in the lower 48. This year, not one that spun up during the month proved fatal.
For the first time in seven years, the United States had no killer tornadoes in May, a welcome statistic for parts of tornado country accustomed to holding their breath during the springtime.
Scientists continue to publish new drought reconstructions indicating there were far more frequent and severe drought periods in the past several thousand years than anything observed in the modern period. 1
California baked in two serious droughts about 1,100 years ago. The first lasting 220 years and the second 140 years. Each was much more intense than the dry spells Californians are experiencing at present. It's important to note that this was long before there were SUV's or coal fired power plants.
People disagree on climate science and the magnitude and effects of climate change. That said, there is one thing which we should all be able to agree: Joe Biden's climate plan will put America at the mercy of its superpower rival, China. 1
The Biden Administration is pursuing a 'Back Door' Climate Plan that would bypass Congress. When you control Congress and the White House, why do you need to use a backdoor to begin with? With so much zealotry behind the net-zero by 2050, it is vital to take a step back and consider the national interest implications of these proposed policies, reports Robert Hefner. 2
Radiation is a natural process that is occurring at all times all around us. It is measured in units called millirems (mrems). The average person experiences a dose of about 620 mrems per year. International Standards consider exposure to as much as 5,000 mrems (5 rem) a year safe for those who work with and around radioactive material.