PPT-Is Climate Change Vindicating Malthus?

Food Security Water Scarcity and the Right to Food Climate Change and Threats to Food Security Robert S Lawrence MD Director The Center for a Livable Future Professor of Environmental Health . According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rising global temperatures will very likely increase the frequency and intensity of heat waves droughts and heavy rainfall events adversely affecting agriculture forests water resources indu Ms. . Divya. Mohan. Associate Fellow. Earth . Sceince. and Climate Change Division. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Agriculture and Climate Change. Agriculture contributes to climate change through GHG emissions. When you complete this module, you will be able to. Explain natural causes of global climate change.. Trace the flow of carbon through the carbon cycle.. Explain the natural and human-related processes that cause increases and decreases in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere..  . All must: . Describe simple . solutions to climate change outside the home.. Most should: . Explain how a family could take steps within their home to prevent climate change.. Some could: . Analyse how the future could look if we all tackled climate change. . Climate change affects us all . – . but those hit first and hardest . a. re people . living in poverty. . Already. , 150,000 people die . each . year . from . the effects of climate change, . almost . Created and presented by Brandi graham. What is global warming and why is it happening? . Global warming is the term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and its oceans, a change that is believed to be permanently changing the Earth's climate. Energy. Climate. . Change. . Adaptation. Bruce A. McCarl. Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University. mccarl@tamu.edu. , http//ageco.tamu.edu/faculty/mccarl. Climate. Population and Migration Unit. Thomas Malthus. Ester . Boserup. Malthus. Malthus . believed that there was a finite optimum population in relation to food supply and that an increase beyond that point would lead to a decline in living standards and to war, famine and disease. Thomas Malthus (1766-1834). In 1798 Malthus published his very influential . Essay on the Principle of Population. He contended that population must eventually outpace the food supply because population grows geometrically while food supply can expand only arithmetically. . Climatology. is . the study of Earth’s climate and the factors that affect past, present, and future climatic changes.. Climate describes annual variations of temperature, precipitation, wind, and other weather factors.. Is it getting worse?. Are Humans causing it?. Is Time running out?. Is there anything that should be done?. Is the “standard model” the only option?. Climate change?. . “Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.” Enrico Fermi 1938.. Climate Matters in the Newsroom Josh Murphy Center for Climate Change Communication (4C) George Mason University Overview Our Mission (4C) “ We develop and apply social science insights to help society make informed decisions that will stabilize the Earth’s life-sustaining climate, and prevent further harm from climate change.” Examples of the both fine-scale and larger-scale signature of climate and climate history include:. Effect of differences in climate on landforms . Relict . topography formed by now inactive . processes.. Session. 4. Shape: Triangular. Growth: Fast . Shape: Extended Triangle. Growth: Moderate . Shape: Column. Growth: Slow. Shape: Reduced Pentagon. Growth: Shrinking. Thomas Malthus. . – 1798 wrote “Essay on the Principle of Population” .