[✔️] October 6, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
👀 Richard Pauli
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Wed Oct 6 08:24:39 EDT 2021
/*October 6, 2021*/
/[this was the first time the prize has been awarded for climate science.]/
//*Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Study of Humanity’s Role in
Changing Climate*
The work of Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi
“demonstrate that our knowledge about the climate rests on a solid
scientific foundation,” the committee said.
By Cade Metz, Marc Santora and Cora Engelbrecht
Oct. 5, 2021
Three scientists received the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work
that is essential to understanding how the Earth’s climate is changing,
pinpointing the effect of human behavior on those changes and ultimately
predicting the impact of global warming.
The winners were Syukuro Manabe of Princeton University, Klaus
Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg,
Germany, and Giorgio Parisi of the Sapienza University of Rome.
Others have received Nobel Prizes for their work on climate change, most
notably former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, but the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences said this is the first time the Physics prize has
been awarded specifically to a climate scientist.
“The discoveries being recognized this year demonstrate that our
knowledge about the climate rests on a solid scientific foundation,
based on a rigorous analysis of observations,” said Thors Hans Hansson,
chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics....
Complex physical systems, such as the climate, are often defined by
their disorder. This year’s winners helped bring understanding to what
seemed like chaos by describing those systems and predicting their
long-term behavior.
In 1967, Dr. Manabe developed a computer model that confirmed the
critical connection between the primary greenhouse gas — carbon dioxide
— and warming in the atmosphere.
That model paved the way for others of increasing sophistication. Dr.
Manabe’s later models, which explored connections between conditions in
the ocean and atmosphere, were crucial to recognizing how increased
melting of the Greenland ice sheet could affect ocean circulation in the
North Atlantic, said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania
State University.
“He has contributed fundamentally to our understanding of human-caused
climate change and dynamical mechanisms,”...
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About a decade after Dr. Manabe’s foundational work, Dr. Hasselmann
created a model that connected short-term climate phenomena — in other
words, rain and other kinds of weather — to longer-term climate like
ocean and atmospheric currents. Dr. Mann said that work laid the basis
for attribution studies, a field of scientific inquiry that seeks to
establish the influence of climate change on specific events like
droughts, heat waves and intense rainstorms...
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Dr. Parisi is credited with the discovery of the interplay of disorder
and fluctuations in physical systems, including everything from a tiny
collection of atoms to the atmosphere of an entire planet.
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“Many important physical phenomena involve collective behavior that
arises out of fundamentally disordered, chaotic, even frustrated
systems. A system that looks hopelessly random, if analyzed the right
way, can yield a robust prediction for a collective behavior.”
These ideas can help understand climate change, which “involves
fluctuations that come from the interaction of many, many moving parts,”
Dr. Yllanes said.
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“It’s clear that for the future generation, we have to act now in a very
fast way.”...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/science/nobel-prize-physics-manabe-klaus-parisi.html
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[Princeton press conference for the Nobel scientitests]*
**News Conference for 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics: Syukuro Manabe*
Oct 5, 2021 - Princeton University
https://youtu.be/BUtzK41Qpsw?t=179
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[a long video presentation and explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics]
*Announcement of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics*
Oct 4, 2021 - Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded "for groundbreaking
contributions to our understanding of complex systems" with one half
jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann "for the physical
modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably
predicting global warming" and the other half to Giorgio Parisi "for the
discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical
systems from atomic to planetary scales."
The Nobel Prize in Physics was announced at the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences in Stockholm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJJoPCtgpQI
/[Of course, calling attention] /
*Is it Time for the World Court to Weigh in on Climate Change?*
Vanuatu is maneuvering to call the question, hoping the UN General
Assembly will ask the International Court of Justice to rule.
By Katie Surma - October 4, 2021
The Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu has called for the Hague-based
International Court of Justice to weigh in on whether nations have a
legal responsibility to prevent their greenhouse gas emissions from
harming other countries.
Ahead of the United Nations’ climate talks in Scotland next month,
Vanuatu said it would work to build a coalition of countries to support
a U.N. General Assembly resolution asking the court to issue an advisory
opinion on climate change. The resolution would require either majority
or two-thirds support, depending on how the U.N. Charter is interpreted.
If Vanuatu succeeds, and if the court agrees to take up the issue, its
opinion would mark the first time the U.N.’s principal judicial body has
considered legal responsibilities related to climate change...
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On Sept. 26, a study published in the journal Science added to their
concern, finding that people born in 2020 will face roughly triple the
number of climate disasters as their grandparents. Children in low lying
archipelagos like Vanuatu, a nation of 83 islands about 1,200 miles from
Brisbane, Australia, face some of the worst effects, including the
erasure of their ancestral lands as sea levels continue to rise and
increasingly powerful cyclones that have battered the islands in recent
years.
While the court’s advisory opinions aren’t legally binding, they carry
exceptional weight, influencing the behavior of governments and private
companies, and creating precedent for other international tribunals and
national courts to rely upon in their own decision making...
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“There won’t be a request to talk about money damages,” he said,
describing the climate change question Vanuatu will most likely ask the
General Assembly to consider. “That would make a hard situation much
harder. The question will focus on states’ obligation to reduce emissions.”
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...Palau and the Marshall Islands... proposed a question that focused on
transboundary harms: “What are the obligations under international law
of a State for ensuring that activities under its jurisdiction or
control that emit greenhouse gases do not cause, or substantially
contribute to, serious damage to another State or States?”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04102021/internationa-court-of-justice-vanuatu-ecocide/
/[ Four years ago video lecture to The Geological Society] /
*Waking the Giant: how a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis
and volcanoes *
London Lecture: Waking the Giant December 2016
Jan 6, 2017 - The Geological Society
An astonishing transformation over the last 20,000 years has seen our
planet flip from a frigid wasteland into the temperate world upon which
our civilisation has grown and thrived. This most dynamic episode in
Earth history saw the crust bouncing and bending in response to the
melting of the great ice sheets and the filling of the ocean basins;
triggering earthquakes, spawning tsunamis and provoking a lively
response from the world’s volcanoes.
Now there are signs that human-induced climate change is encouraging the
sleeping giant beneath our feet to stir once again. Could it be that we
are on track to bequeath to our children and their children not only a
far hotter world, but also a more geologically fractious one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca8q4QSutFQ&t=1806s
/[fully animated, fast-talking video news report] /
*Antarctica Could Be Hit by ‘Chain Reaction’ Collapse*
Oct 4, 2021
TomoNews US
As melting ice in Antarctica exposes land beneath it, the chain of
processes set off may be capable of causing the sheet to collapse,
according to a study in Nature Geoscience.
Researchers looked at Earth 13 to 17 million years ago when carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere and global temperatures reached levels similar
to those expected by the end of this century, and said when ice sheets
melt, the exposed land beneath is less reflective, so local temperatures
become warmer.
This can drastically alter weather patterns because Antarctic winds
usually blow from the continent out to the sea, but if the continent
warms up that could be reversed, with winds blowing from the cooler sea
to the warmer land.
That would bring additional rainfall to the Antarctic, which in turn
would cause more freshwater to run into the sea, according to a
University of Exeter news release on Eurekalert.
Finally, because freshwater is less dense than saltwater, it is less
likely to sink and circulate, which means warmer water simply sits on
top of the ocean, causing more warming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9OWRgUoM98
[One man's opinion- video ~40 mins]
*RUNAWAY Climate Change*
Oct 4, 2021
Peter Carter
The many now triggered feedbacks that lead to climate change runaway,
with the latest research findings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gse2SRcqFDI
[The news archive - looking back]
*On this day in the history of global warming October 6, 2008*
DeSmogBlog's Jeremy Jacquot praises the 2008 vice-presidential debate
between Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) and
Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) for its focus on climate change and energy
issues:
"Palin made a big show of her ticket’s emphasis on 'energy
independence' – even ducking a question about bankruptcy laws to cheer
for more offshore drilling – and McCain’s 'all of the above' policy.
Though she went through the motions, I have my doubts that she
supports mandatory caps – or, frankly, that she supports any real
meaningful action on climate change. Now if only the next debate
moderator can get the presidential candidates arguing about climate
policy…"
http://www.desmogblog.com/biden-palin-finally-a-real-debate-about-climate-change-and-energy
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