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This year’s Nobel Committee announced the Nobel Prize for Physics for climate model and understanding of the physical system just weeks before the Glasgow Climate summit. Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann, two out of the three winners of the year, studied large-scale global forces that shape our daily lives and laid the foundation of our knowledge of the earth’s climate and how human actions influence it. Climate Action Tracker (CAT) of Germany-based non-profit group ‘Climate Analytics’, in its report in November 2020, had rated India ‘almost sufficient’ for its climate actions for 2 degrees Celsius temperature rise compatible under the...
