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.
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.
Solar physicists at the ultra-warmist Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact are warning that Europe may be facing a 'mini ice age' due to a possible protracted solar minimum. For an institute that over the past 20 years has steadfastly insisted that man has been almost the sole factor in climate change over the past century and that the sun no longer plays a role, this is quite remarkable reports Pierre Gosselin.1
The worst crimes are the subtle throwaway lines that alarmists and journalists tuck onto their coverage of impending doom that give a completely mistaken impression about the future of the world, says Joakim Book.
Xi Jinping, the Chinese 'president for life,' last September pledged that his country aims 'to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality (Net Zero) before 2060. 1
Yet China's latest five year plan increases investment in coal and omits any cap on total energy consumption. This leads to the observation that 'the central contradiction between expanding the smokestack economy and promoting green growth appears unresolved.' The lack of a cap on total energy consumption was a notable exclusion. 2
Fungi have played a critical role in shaping Earth's terrestrial biosphere over the last billion years. Fungi probably arrived on land 500 million years before plants. Recent research suggests that the emergence of plant life was only made possible by aeons of groundwork by ancient fungal forefathers. Without their expansive of root fungi trees would die. 1
What is clear is that without fungi, we would not exist. Playing a vital role in the maintenance of healthy ecosystems across the planet, from the Antarctic deserts to the tropical rainforests, fungi underpin all life on Earth today. 2
Environmental activism can delay or even stop development projects in developing countries. Not all of it is wrong, but more and more of it is, especially concerning hydrocarbon-based power plants and food in developing countries.
India, with a population of 1.3 billion and nearly 300 million living in poverty, has been facing constant challenges to its energy goals. Hydrocarbon projects in particular face hurdles from well-organized environmental activists backed by Western funders.
One high-profile document intended to drive consumer choices is the Environment Working Group (EWG) Dirty Dozen report listing of fruits and vegetables it claims have the highest levels of pesticide and residues. The EWG is an American non-profit environmental organization that specializes in alleged research and advocacy in a number of areas, including toxic chemicals.
Each year since 1991, the USDA has been publishing the results from a large-scale pesticide residue monitoring program called the PDP. Each year, a different set of crops is chosen and samples are purchased from regular stores and tested. Year after year, the results of those studies confirm the safety of the food supply. Year after year the EWG misrepresents the data to say otherwise in their dirty dozen list. 1
Some countries learned something that the warmer countries did not: wind turbines can freeze in winter. Not only do they cease to put out power in very cold weather, they actually need to be heated. 1
Richard Littlejohn points out in the UK there are days when the contribution of the forests of wind turbines had been precisely nothing. As the temperature plummeted, the turbines have had to be heated to prevent them seizing up. Consequently, they had been consuming more electricity than they generated. Even on a good day they rarely worked above a quarter of their theoretical capacity. And in high winds they had to be switched off altogether to prevent damage. 2
A major argument people use to promote renewable electricity mandates is that the mandates can create jobs. Reports from 10 years ago reveal that trying to create jobs through renewable subsidies had proven to be a failure. In Spain, for example, it was estimated that 2.2 jobs were lost as an opportunity for creating one job in the renewable sector. In Germany, per worker subsidies in the solar industry were as high as $240,000.1
In Italy, the same amount of capital that created one job in the green sector, would create almost 5 jobs in the general economy.. Researchers also found that the vast majority of green jobs created were temporary. Most of the jobs, at least 60%, were for installers or other temporary work that would disappear once a photovoltaic panel, or a wind tower is operative.
In 1987 NASA's James Hansen, one of the folks credited with starting the global warming scare, predicted the world would be 3 C warmer by 2020. Reality: average temperature was only 0.44 C higher.
In 2013 it was predicted that Arctic summers may be ice free by 2020. Reality: The prediction was 3.9 million square kilometers wrong at the annual minimum in September 2020. 1 Data show the Arctic more stable than media doomsayers portray it to be. Arctic temps show little change over the past 90 years. 2
If you only focused on the United States, you might think coal's days were numbered. But that's not true globally. Far from it. Coal consumption has actually been accelerating worldwide since the end of the 1990s.
Mexico is the most recent member of the 'build more coal fired plants' club.
This country, once a climate leader, now is betting on coal.
Environmentalists often bristle when charged with being addicted to gloom-and-doom messages, but every now and then an environmental group will confirm the stereotype. In April 2006,Greenpeace mistakenly posted an incomplete draft press release on its Website that read: “In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE].” 1
Alan Oxley reports that the conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has for years been playing fast and loose with the facts. 2
The voracious appetites of pests put plants under constant stress. They have to fight just to stay alive. And fight they do. Far from being passive victims, plants have evolved potent defenses: chemical compounds that serve as toxins, signal an escalating attack, and solicit help from unlikely allies. 1The voracious appetites of pests put plants under constant stress. They have to fight just to stay alive. And fight they do. Far from being passive victims, plants have evolved potent defenses: chemical compounds that serve as toxins, signal an escalating attack, and solicit help from unlikely allies. 1
In some cases plants lure attackers into a carefully set trap. An example: plants in the Brassicaceae family (including broccoli, cabbage and mustard) store seemingly harmless compounds known as glucosinates in cellular compartments next to stores o enzymes called myrosinase. The two reserves are separated only by a thin cell wall. When an unsuspecting herbivore chews through this wall, the myrosinase enzymes mix with the glucosinates, catalyzing chemical reactions that engulf the attacker in a toxic cloud. It's these reactions that give Brassicaceae species their characteristic bitter flavor and antioxidant properties.
Professor Axel Mormer, renowned Swedish sea level expert, reports that there is a total absence of data supporting the notion of a present sea level rise; on the contrary all available facts indicate present sea level stability. 1
A recent analysis of global sea level rise rates concludes the rising trend was 1.56 mm per year from 1900-2018. This is the same rate as for 1958-2014 (1.5 mm per year), indicating there has not been a long-term distinctive change in sea level rise rates in the last 120 years. 2
These are a sampling of many reports that show sea level is not rising at an alarming rate. Here are some others:
The newest and biggest wind project to date in Australia is to undergo major repairs after faults were found in its commissioning process. Wind turbines at the Coppers Gap wind farm in Australia had to be repaired or replaced before they were even put into service. (1)
The blades of one of the 123 turbines will have to be replaced entirely, while GE Catcon is also going to replace 'generators'- referring to the equipment in the nacelle at the top of the wind tower —in a further 50 turbines.
Historically, climate activists like to use 'climate change' as an immediate go-to cause for anything they can't explain or ignore data that don't fit their apocalyptic claims.
From 'where the rubber meets the road' department, comes the bombshell finding that flies in the face of claims about the universal boogeyman of 'climate change' killing salmon due to its supposedly water temperature in streams where they spawn. Last year, PBS and Popular Science were screaming about 'climate change' being the cause. 1
In a major speech in Jakarta in February 2014, John Kerry claimed that “climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.” 1
Kerry recently commented on Covid-19: “It's a tragically teachable moment. I don't say this in a partisan way. But the parallels between COVID-19 and climate change are screaming at us, both positive and negative. You could just as easily replace the words climate change with COVID-19; it is truly the tale of two pandemics deferred, denied, and distorted, one with catastrophic consequences, the other with even greater risk if we don't reverse course. The long-term parallels between this pandemic and tomorrow's gathering storm of climate crisis are more clear. If the economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic is costly today, the cost of climate inaction will match—if not exceed-- our current expenditures, which is why the next administration must act with urgency on day one.” 2