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Climate Change and Global Food Production

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Lecture by David Battisti, University of Washington

Humans are changing the Earth's environment. By the middle of this century, increasing greenhouse gases due to burning of fossil fuel will cause the average temperature in the tropics and subtropics to exceed that experienced throughout human history.

Battisti will summarize the knowable - and perhaps inescapable - consequences for global food production. The greatest losses in grain production will be in developing countries, where today one billion people are malnourished and depend greatly on agriculture for income and food security. Significant losses will also be experienced in some of the world's bread baskets - the US, Europe, Russia and China.

David Battisti is The Tamaki Endowed Chair of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. His research is focused on understanding how the interactions between the ocean, atmosphere, land and sea ice lead to variability in climate on time scales from seasonal to decades. Battisti is presently working to improve the El Nino models and their forecast skill, to understand the mechanisms responsible for the drought cycles in the Sahel, and to better understand the monsoons. He is also working on the impacts of climate variability and climate change on food production in Mexico, Indonesia and China. Battisti has an adjunct position at the Geophysical Institute, UiB.

The event starts with a snack and refreshments in advance of the lecture that starts at 15.15.

The lecture is open to all. Welcome!

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Les også hva Tore Furevik, leder for Senter for Klimadynamikk, skriver i På Høyden om Mindre mat i eit varmare klima, relatert til Battistis forskning.