By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 As a science teacher my challenge was helping students realize science subject matter connected with many events in their lives. Some students regarded science as their…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 Do the events of weather inspire assurance and reverence for the Creator who designed Earth’s climate system for human thriving? Or contrarily, do weather and climate…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 Contemporary weather discussions often revolve around awe-inspiring events. Today’s conversations often join with the current climate buzz where startling weather events (effects) are linked with our…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 On February 20, 2014 Charles Krauthammer submitted a highly popular column to the Wall Street Journal entitled “The Myth of Settled Science.” Public reaction was both…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 The most recent segment of the 5th IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) assessment report has been released. The IPCC is a scientific body under the…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 When the environmental movement originated in the 1960s and 1970s, a relatively new term entered our modern vocabulary. The term environment was well understood but ecology…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 Diligent inquiry yields informative facts in a complex subject such as climate change. Before 1988 the topic did not generate heated emotions. During the 1970s scientists…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 On the evening of March 10, 2014, over half of the Democratic senators in Washington staged an all-night “filibuster” in senate chambers to highlight awareness of…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 The counsel of Psalm 90:12 is appropriate for daily and mundane as well as eternal and spiritual guidance. “Teach us to number our days aright, that…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 Relentless cold describes the winter of 2013-2014 in the central and eastern United States. Accompanying the cold have come frequent snows. In our region this winter…