John William Dini, know to all as ‘Jack’, passed away at the age of 89 on June 17, 2026. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio on Nov. 14, 1936.
He published two books, a technical book on materials science and coatings and another on environmental issues. In retirement, he wrote extensively on various environmental issues for online publications.
He was a skilled leaded glass hobbyist, creating more than 20 lamps and many panels. He was a jogger for many years, competing in over 300 long distance races. He was a slow runner, not wanting to take the glory away from others. His secret was to start slow and taper. He and Anne traveled extensively, visiting over 70 countries.
He is survived by his wife, Anne, of 67 years, and sons Mike, Steve, and Paul. If you were to meet him somewhere, he would sum up his life as ‘peaches and cream’.
Nuclear takes the least amount of land, uses the least amount of earth’s natural resources, has lifetimes up to 3X that of renewables (80 vs. 24 years), is competitive in cost even though it pays for all its clean-up, disposition costs up front
USAID gave $68 million dollars to the World Economic Forum, a group of networking billionaires who meet in January each year to ski in Davos. They turn up in private jets to discuss how they can stop the average man flying
The planetary benefits are clear. Producing new steel from old steel requires a seventh of the energy and releases a tenth of the carbon dioxide when producing it from newly excavated ore.
Big Tech’s move to nuclear energy to power its data centers shows that green energies like wind and sun alone cannot meet the energy needs of our modern digital world
The fact that GMO’s are safe is so well established that almost every professional organization in the entire world has already declared it safe in official statements.
Radiation Hormesis: Literally, hundreds of thousands of medical workers exposed to frequent low-level radiation have experienced similar positive health benefits
Boiling Oceans Scare: The science of seawater geochemistry has been around a long time. The relationship between CO2 and pH has been observed for a long time. Why did they suddenly fabricate the phrase ocean acidification to describe this process?
As Klaus Schwab stated recently at the World Economic Forum 2025 in Davos: “The future doesn’t just unfold, the future is shaped by us and especially by us in this room.”
The truth laid bare in this poll is that Australians have no idea what the real cost of Net Zero fantasies are. If they had any idea what the true price was, they’d be livid
Naïve puzzlement that renewable energy is not replacing coal. Folks still have not worked out that countries like China and India know that they cannot run their economies on the vagaries of wind and solar power
To go from opulence to poverty and potential barbarism is but a short road, assured by the burden of high taxes in service of an alleged climate crisis, and an intolerable administration of ‘climate justice’
Legendary Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson has harsh critical words for climate scientists and models they rely on. He calls the science of climate modeling a ‘very dangerous game.’
Anyone looking to combat the activists pushing a net zero agenda in the US would be wise to read Rupert Darwall’s report entitled “The Folly of Climate Leadership.”
Any chance we could learn from the experiences of others? There have been a lot of mistakes made. Perhaps things will look differently under the new administration
That climate change threatens the extinction of coral reefs is among the least well-founded but most persistent assertions made by climate alarmists. Clearly, they ought to look elsewhere for their fear-mongering diatribes
Germany is showing the world that the green craze is doomed to failure. People do not want to sacrifice their quality of life and their jobs for some utopian goals that are in any case based only on ideological assumptions and incomplete data sets
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization continues to promote insect consumption as an environmentally friendly way to get protein in your diet, for both humans and their livestock
Overall, despite the best efforts to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, the world remains stuck getting 82% of its energy from them. We are a fossil fueled world. Solar and wind make up just 6% of our energy needs