The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics Was Awarded for Making a “Guess” About Climate
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Anthony Watts -
October 7, 2021 1
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This past week, Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann shared the Noble Prize in physics for their work which led to early computer models of the Earth’s climate. Unlike many Nobel-worthy accomplishments that are based on hard data or newly discovered processes, the result which was awarded this year’s Noble Prize was simply a guess; one that still doesn’t have an answer, more than 60 years later.
As the BBC reports,
“It is incredibly difficult to predict the long-term behaviour of complex physical systems such as the climate. Computer models that anticipate how it will respond to rising greenhouse gas emissions have therefore been crucial for understanding global warming as a planetary emergency.”
The Associated Press reported on Manabes work, heaping on praise saying, “…other climate scientists called his 1967 paper with the late Richard Wetherald “the most influential climate paper ever,” And, Manabe’s Princeton colleague Tom Delworth called Manabe “the Michael Jordan of climate.”
CNN reported,
https://climaterealism.com/2021/10/the-2021-nobel-prize-in-physics-was-awarded-for-making-a-guess-about-climate/
