STOCKHOLM - Nobel Prize laureates gathered in Stockholm to receive their awards took the opportunity Saturday to stress the importance of addressing climate change. Winners of the prizes in physics, chemistry and economics made the assessment Saturday ahead of next week’s presentation of the prizes. The remarks come as a global summit on climate change takes place in Madrid. Didier Queloz, who shared the physics prize for discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star, took issue with people who shrug off climate change on the grounds that people will eventually leave Earth. “I see these people in Princeton, my home town, as they go marching for control of climate.

Source: thestar December 07, 2019 10:24 UTC