UN says awards to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi show growing consensus on man-made global warming
Joint winner of the Nobel prize for physics, Italian scientist Giorgio Parisi makes a toast with colleagues after the announcement in Rome, Italy, October 5 2021. Picture: REUTERS/REMO CASILLI
Dr Klaus Hasselmann poses for a photo after the Nobel announcement, in Hamburg, Germany, October 5 2021. Picture: MORRIS MACMATZEN/GETTY IMAGES The academy said Manabe, who works at Princeton University in the US, had laid the foundation in the 1960s for today’s understanding of Earth’s climate after moving to the US from Japan to continue his research.
Asked in English how he would address climate change sceptics, he smiled and replied, “That problem is about a million times more difficult than understanding climate change. It is very mysterious to me.” Scientists have spent decades urging climate change action on an often reluctant society, Hasselmann said in a recording published on the Nobel Prize’s website.
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