PPT-CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACT ON WATER RESOURCES

VANDANA RAO PhD Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs November 05 2014 Mass Envirothon Workshop UMass Amherst Granted we dont have this Location Mumbai Bombay India. Toxic Intersections:. . Food. Energy. Inequality/Inequity. Driving & Exacerbated by. Climate . & Water Disasters. Maureen McCue MD PhD. Global Health Studies. Center Human Rights. International Programs. Outline . Introduction. Implication of climate change for tea. Socio-economic implications. The estate sector. The smallholder sector. Impact of climate change on the world tea market. Adaptation measures for tea cultivation. PM. 2.5. . air quality inferred from a multi-model analysis of meteorological modes. Loretta J. Mickley. Co-Is:. Amos P.K.A. Tai. . and Daniel J. Jacob. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Harvard University. and . Social Vulnerability. Dr. Peter Gleick. Pacific Institute, Oakland, California. California Temperature and Precipitation Anomalies (1895-2014) . (36-month periods). Source: Mann and Gleick, 2015, PNAS. NOAA/NCDC . Catherine Thomasson, MD . Physicians for Social Responsibility. Risk Factors for Conflict. Competition for scarce resources. Migration. Partial social structures/gov’t control. Demographic & economic inequities . 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.. S. Appanah. Climate Change Coordinator . a.i. . . FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Background. Review “Rice and climate change in Asia”. Study outsourced to IRRI. Constitutes part of consultation on the formulation of rice strategy for Asia. Catherine Thomasson, MD . Physicians for Social Responsibility. Risk Factors for Conflict. Competition for scarce resources. Migration. Partial social structures/gov’t control. Demographic & economic inequities . Toxic Intersections:. . Food. Energy. Inequality/Inequity. Driving & Exacerbated by. Climate . & Water Disasters. Maureen McCue MD PhD. Global Health Studies. Center Human Rights. International Programs. Basic Approach and Resources. By . Tamatha. Patterson and Kelsey Thetonia. Indiana Watershed Leadership Academy. May 20, 2015. IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. globalchange.gov. IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 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.” forecast of 1 to 4 meters with 2 meters as the most likely outcome. Key decision-makers in the omes so they can determine the robustness of build the residential development, and the maximum it is se Determinants of health. Person’s individual characteristics and behaviors. Physical environment. Social and economic environment. Source: www.who.int/hia/evidence/doh/en/. Potential . impacts of . climate .