This is the last weekly headlines for the month of January. Next week I’m on a sabbatical so you won’t be seeing any new blog postings but I’ll be back in the saddle on Monday, February 4, 2013. Hope you can visit then. The headlines I decided to share with you this

In 2011 Canada exported on average over 2.3 million barrels of oil every day to the United States. 1.6 million of those barrels came from bitumen deposits in Northern Alberta. Some came from similar deposits in Northern Saskatchewan. Bitumen has other names: oil sands, and less flatte

Re-engineering the planet may be tougher than re-engineering humanity argues S. Matthew Liao, of New York University, in an article, Human Engineering and Climate Change published in Ethics, Policy & Environment. With the impact of greenhouse gases and rising atmospheric temperatu

What will be the impact on agricultural production of increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases? The American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society of America recently issued a position statement on climate change. In that statement

Climate change as a result of human activity on Earth is a science that has more and more taken on credibility as we track rising global temperatures, ozone depletion, vanishing polar ice, shrinking alpine glaciers, and extreme weather systems that are a departure from recorded meteor