Eva Olsson, member of the Nobel Committee (left). Giorgio Parisi, one of three Nobel Physics laureates this year, right. Credit: Left: Johan Bodell/Chalmers. Right: Cecilia Fabiano / AP / TT
NOBEL PRIZES
Nobel Physics Laureate on climate: We have to act fast
- With an upcoming UN climate conference in Glasgow next month, Swedish Radio's science commentator said that this year's Nobel Prize, focusing in part on climate science, was timed unusually well.
- But Nobel Committee member Eva Olsson tells Radio Sweden that it's a coincidence that this was the science that was recognized this year. She emphasized the committee's core criteria as awarding what is to the benefit of mankind.
- Nevertheless, Italian laureate Giorgio Parisi, recognized for his theory of disordered and random phenomena, had this message for politicians going to Glasgow: "We have to act now in a very fast way and not with a strong delay!"
