Nobel in physics: Climate science breakthroughs earn prize
The physics Nobel has been given for work to understand complex systems such as the Earth’s climate. …
Japan-born Syukuro Manabe, 90, who is senior meteorologist at Princeton University in New Jersey, demonstrated how increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could lead to increased temperatures at the surface of the Earth. In the 1960s, he led the development of physical models of the climate.
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