The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded this year for work on finding order in chaos — some made by humans and some found in nature.
Half of the prize went to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their studies showing how humans were changing the climate on Earth. According to the prize committee, it was Manabe, now at Princeton University, who built one of the first climate models in the 1960s that explained how human-produced carbon dioxide could warm the planet.
“It’s a physics prize and what we are saying is that the modelling of climate is solidly based in physical theory and well-known physics,” said Goran K. Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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