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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 6, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[this was the first time the prize has been awarded for climate
science.]</i><br>
<i> </i><b>Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Study of Humanity’s
Role in Changing Climate</b><br>
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.<br>
By Cade Metz, Marc Santora and Cora Engelbrecht<br>
Oct. 5, 2021 <br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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“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....<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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“He has contributed fundamentally to our understanding of
human-caused climate change and dynamical mechanisms,”...<br>
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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...<br>
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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.<br>
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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.”<br>
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These ideas can help understand climate change, which “involves
fluctuations that come from the interaction of many, many moving
parts,” Dr. Yllanes said.<br>
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“It’s clear that for the future generation, we have to act now in a
very fast way.”...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/science/nobel-prize-physics-manabe-klaus-parisi.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/science/nobel-prize-physics-manabe-klaus-parisi.html</a><br>
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[Princeton press conference for the Nobel scientitests]<b><br>
</b><b>News Conference for 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics: Syukuro
Manabe</b><br>
Oct 5, 2021 - Princeton University<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/BUtzK41Qpsw?t=179">https://youtu.be/BUtzK41Qpsw?t=179</a><br>
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<p>[a long video presentation and explanation of the Nobel Prize in
Physics]<br>
<b>Announcement of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics</b><br>
Oct 4, 2021 - Nobel Prize<br>
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."<br>
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The Nobel Prize in Physics was announced at the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJJoPCtgpQI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJJoPCtgpQI</a></p>
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<i>[Of course, calling attention] </i><br>
<b>Is it Time for the World Court to Weigh in on Climate Change?</b><br>
Vanuatu is maneuvering to call the question, hoping the UN General
Assembly will ask the International Court of Justice to rule.<br>
By Katie Surma - October 4, 2021<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
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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...<br>
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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. <br>
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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...<br>
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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.”<br>
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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?”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04102021/internationa-court-of-justice-vanuatu-ecocide/">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04102021/internationa-court-of-justice-vanuatu-ecocide/</a><br>
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<i>[ Four years ago video lecture to The Geological Society] </i><br>
<b>Waking the Giant: how a changing climate triggers earthquakes,
tsunamis and volcanoes </b><br>
London Lecture: Waking the Giant December 2016<br>
Jan 6, 2017 - The Geological Society<br>
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. <br>
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?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca8q4QSutFQ&t=1806s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca8q4QSutFQ&t=1806s</a><br>
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<i>[fully animated, fast-talking video news report] </i><br>
<b>Antarctica Could Be Hit by ‘Chain Reaction’ Collapse</b><br>
Oct 4, 2021<br>
TomoNews US<br>
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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9OWRgUoM98">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9OWRgUoM98</a></p>
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[One man's opinion- video ~40 mins]<br>
<b>RUNAWAY Climate Change</b><br>
Oct 4, 2021<br>
Peter Carter<br>
The many now triggered feedbacks that lead to climate change
runaway, with the latest research findings.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gse2SRcqFDI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gse2SRcqFDI</a><br>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
October 6, 2008</b></font><br>
DeSmogBlog's Jeremy Jacquot praises the 2008 vice-presidential
debate <br>
between Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) and<br>
Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) for its focus on climate change and
energy<br>
issues:<br>
<blockquote>"Palin made a big show of her ticket’s emphasis on
'energy<br>
independence' – even ducking a question about bankruptcy laws to
cheer<br>
for more offshore drilling – and McCain’s 'all of the above'
policy.<br>
Though she went through the motions, I have my doubts that she<br>
supports mandatory caps – or, frankly, that she supports any real<br>
meaningful action on climate change. Now if only the next debate<br>
moderator can get the presidential candidates arguing about
climate<br>
policy…"<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/biden-palin-finally-a-real-debate-about-climate-change-and-energy">http://www.desmogblog.com/biden-palin-finally-a-real-debate-about-climate-change-and-energy</a><br>
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