Join us for the next Baker Center Energy and Environment Forum, which will 
take place on Thursday, November 14 at 3:30 in the Toyota Auditorium in the 
Baker Center.

Dr. Bruce McCarl, from Texas A&M University, will give a 45 minute presentation 
and then lead a discussion with participants. His talk is titled: Climate Change 
and Decision Making: An Economic and Agricultural Perspective.

Abstract: Climate change raises major challenges for current and future 
decision making and the economy, including the agricultural one. Dr. McCarl will 
address issues of climate change vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation in 
general and with an economic and agricultural bias. Specific topics include: 
climate change effects, causes and the inevitability of future change; the basic 
economic issue of allocating effort across climate-related information gathering, 
mitigation and adaption in contrast to conventional uses of funds for 
consumption and investment; agricultural implications, mitigation and 
adaptation possibilities; and the results of select studies on effects, adaptation 
and mitigation.

Bruce McCarl is University Professor of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M 
University. Dr. McCarl works on the economic implications of global climate 
change, greenhouse gas emission reduction and water allocation/policy along 
with applications of optimization theory. He is involved with the 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, being a lead author of the IPCC 
2007 Agricultural Mitigation chapter plus the 2014 Economics of Adaptation 
chapter.  He has performed numerous analyses of the US effects of climate 
change incidence, mitigation and adaptation plus in addition to being on the 
National Academy of Science Panel on America's Climate Choices. He is a Fellow 
of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and was a participant in 
the IPCC 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Baker Center Energy and Environment Forum is an opportunity for 
academics to share their research findings to a broad set of academics, 
researchers, and students from outside their own discipline but who have a 
common interest in environmental and energy issues. For more information 
about the Baker Center Energy and Environment forum visit the forum’s 
website: http://web.utk.edu/~jlarivi1/bcinter.html.

Please join us for what promises to be a very interesting discussion and 
presentation.

Paul Armsworth, College of Arts and Sciences
Jacob LaRiviere, College of Business Administration 
Becky Jacobs, College of Law
Chris Clark, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources