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Agricultural Economist McCarl Shares in Nobel Peace Prize
Texas A&M University Regents Professor of Agricultural Economics Bruce McCarl shares in the Nobel Peace Prize - recently awarded to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former Vice President Al Gore - for his two decades of research on climate change, portions of which were done jointly with the large UN panel.
When Dr. Bruce McCarl of Texas A&M University woke up the
morning of October 12, the last thing he expected to do was win the Nobel Peace
Prize.
McCarl was sitting in the family room at 5:30 a.m., watching the
news on CNN, when he saw that former vice president Al Gore and the United
Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had shared the prestigious
award for their efforts to document and disseminate greater knowledge about
man-made climate change.
A Regents Professor of agricultural economics,
McCarl had worked on climate change for more than 20 years, studying how
agriculture could be affected and how it could play a role in mitigation.
Portions of this work were done jointly with the U.N. climate change panel.
Courtesy of Texas A&M Agricultural Communications AgNews. Read Dave Mayes' full article here.