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Distinguished University Professor Eugenia Kalnay receives the 2009 World Meteorological Organization’s top prize, the IMO Prize at the National Academy of Sciences


From left to right: Dr. John L. "Jack" Hayes (U.S. Permanent Representative to the WMO and NOAA Assistant Administrator for the Weather Services) Dr. Michel Jarraud (Secretary-General of the WMO), Professor Kalnay, Dr. Alexander Bedritsky (President of the WMO), and Mr. Juan Manuel Horler, Senior meteorologist at the National Weather Service of Argentina (credit: Dagmar Merkova).

Professor Kalnay uses the occasion to address the Population and Climate Change: a Proposal. In her talk, available here, she reviews basic facts about population growth and sustainability, pointing out that no meaningful discussion of climate change can ignore this ‘elephant in the room’. She discusses recent trends in non-coercive population control, and the alleged economic problems of reducing population. She concludes with a proposal to add an interactive regional human population module, and associated components, to Earth System models focusing on regional systems, which can then be used to explore the impact of different emissions scenarios on climate change

The Greenbelt News Review also cites her accomplishment.

Pictures from the celebration are available here and here

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