by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 27, 2016 | Culture, Environment, Opinion
Do the ends ever justify the means? Is it OK to lie to people in order to achieve an outcome you know is good? Most people would probably answer with “it depends.” They’d be right. Police lie to suspected criminals. Parents lie to children. We lie to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 3, 2016 | Environment, Opinion
Humans often pride themselves on their individuality, on their standing “apart from the crowd, and on their self-professed superiority to the unwashed masses of humanity. Humans are, however, quite common and predictable in their behaviors, especially when it...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 8, 2016 | Culture, Environment
The Zika virus outbreak, coinciding with the start of the Olympics in Brazil, reminded me of a simple fact that humanity has known for thousands of years. It’s best summarized as: Mother Nature Wants To Kill You The history of human civilization has been one of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 30, 2016 | Culture, Environment
An Internet friend recently shared his take on a new climate study that is headlined Historical records miss a fifth of global warming. His interpretation, with which I concur, is: The basic premise is “our climate models are right – it’s the data...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 5, 2016 | Environment
A recent study reported on an interesting and “intuitively compelling” theory for the Earth’s history of ice ages and interglacial warm periods. The particulars of the study, which connect low CO2 levels to plant die-off that leads to increased...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 2, 2016 | Culture, Environment
A recent editorial at Investors Business Daily discusses the Left’s abandonment of respect for science with regard to GMO foods and crops. This is nothing new, but even in “old news,” we sometimes find new information. Of particular interest is the...
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