Posted on 10/05/2021 3:54:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Three scientists have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work to understand complex systems such as the Earth's climate.
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi were announced as the winners at an event in Stockholm.
The work by Manabe and Hasselmann led to computer models of the Earth's climate that could predict how global warming would change the environment.
The winners will share the prize money of 10 million krona (£842,611).
It is very difficult to predict the long-term behaviour of complex physical systems such as our planet's climate. But computer models that can anticipate the effects associated with emissions from burning fossil fuels have been crucial to our understanding of climate change.
Syukuro Manabe 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.
Roughly a decade later, Klaus Hasselmann created a computer model that linked together weather and climate. His work answered the question of why climate models can be reliable despite weather being changeable and chaotic.
The award for breakthroughs in understanding planetary heating comes as world leaders are preparing for the UN's climate conference in November. Asked about the timing, Prof Parisi said: "We have to act now in a very fast way and not with a strong delay."
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That seems more like a programming accomplishment than a discovery in physics.
My size 11 would like to “breakthrough” their drawers.
Could these “prizes” be any more political? (And global authoritarian political at that.)
How the…… … did al gore miss out on these alocades.
Oh noooo! We all realize the nobel peace prize has been a travesty for many years now. But now the prize in physics? It used to have some meaning. Einstein received this prize. Now it’s a woke joke. Very sad. The unraveling of civilization continues.
“that could predict”
But do they?
Most of the models can’t predict the past.
If we punch in data from 1900, does the model accurately show climate results for 1950? If not why not?
Much of the Earth enjoys temperature stabilizing systems.
We increasingly live near the coasts for good reason.
Here I thought only the Nobel Peace Prize was strictly political, having been doled out to those who advanced the liberal causes of the day.
I was wrong. The infection has spread.
So now the Nobel Prize in Physics is as worthless as is the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yes, that’s another aspect. Throwing my sons’ D&D dice “could predict” future weather, too.
Agenda driven....
“UC’s new ClimateEx map uses predictive models to display where the world could see the most and least climate change over the next 50 years. Green areas could see least change while white and brown areas are predicted to see the most.”
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/625228
“The map, called ClimateEx, also allows researchers to study what areas of the globe have seen the most dramatic changes in climate over time. Not surprisingly, this includes portions of the warming arctic. But perhaps surprisingly the map also demonstrates that the tropics around the equator also have seen big changes. Stepinski said this is due not to variations in temperature but in monthly rainfall.”
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/636945
I can put most computers into an endless loop. I think I should get a Nobel Prize.
As long as they can explain the grass and tree stumps below the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.
lengthy, but you can navigate to different topics, according to timeline in the show notes. btw President Trump gets a couple of positive mentions in the last five minutes or so:
19 Sept: Youtube: 1hr36m: Greenpeace’s Ex-President Patrick Moore | Is Climate Change Fake? - Modern Wisdom Podcast 373
Interviewed by Chris Williamson
Expect to learn Patrick’s thoughts on humanity’s impact on global warming temperatures, his opinion on Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg, what people mean when they say we’ve only got 50 harvests left, whether we should be worried about rising sea levels and much more...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5K5i5Wv7jQ
His work answered the question of why climate models can be reliable despite weather being changeable and chaotic
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Really? Reliable? Say what? News Flash?
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