Posted on 12/06/2021 10:54:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
LONDON (AP) — Three 2021 Nobel Prize laureates said Monday that climate change is the biggest threat facing the world — yet they remain optimistic — as this year’s winners began receiving their awards at scaled-down local ceremonies adapted for pandemic times.
For a second year, COVID-19 has scuttled the traditional formal banquet in Stockholm attended by winners of the prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine, literature and economics, which were announced in October.
MacMillan, German physics prize winner Klaus Hasselmann and economics prize winner Guido Imbens, who is Dutch but lives in the United States, had a joint virtual news conference Monday where they were asked what they consider the biggest problem facing humanity and what they worry about most. All three answered climate change, with Imbens calling it the world’s “overarching problem.”
“Climate change is something which is clearly going to have a large impact on society,” MacMillan said. “But at the same time given the science, given the call to arms amongst scientists, I really feel more optimism. And I feel there’s a real moment happening with scientists moving towards trying to solve this problem.”
Hasselmann, whose work on climate change won him the prize, said he’s more hopeful because the world’s youth and movements like Fridays for the Future “have picked up the challenge and are getting across the message to the public that we have to act and respond to the problem.”
Hasselmann said he’s more optimistic now about climate change than 20 or 30 years ago.
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The Nobel Prize is a joke.
There was a time when I was interested in who won Nobel or Pulitzer Prizes. I’d go to the Pulitzer website and read the articles or stories that won prizes to see if they were worthy. As we all know, the guy who invented Ivermectin won a Nobel.
But due to the growing politicization of those prizes, I care so very little. To me, they’re not much better than the Kennedy Center Honors.
Give us your money so we can solve the issue.
Is there intelligent life on earth?
darn!!! they gave one to Obama but not Biden!! I am really mad!! (sc)
Nobel Prizes = a total waste of money
There is nothing noble about the Nobel.
For Barack and Gore to have received awards makes a mockery of a once true honor.
Pay no attention to the present and future “Nobel News!”
Of course they did.
Hence, their awards.
Me Too!!....Biden brought gas prices down by 2 cents just before Christmas....The season has been saved!
And Kameltoe needs one too because she has lowered the rate of illegal aliens crossing our borders has declined by 2% in the last month! ........../s
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