The College of Dentistry at the University of Basra held a scientific symposium entitled The relationship between climate change and the Nobel Prize in Physics. Climate change is considered the decisive issue of our time, and we are now facing a decisive moment.
The lecturer, Assistant Professor Dr. Rafid Mustafa Badr, pointed to the global impacts of climate change, which are widespread and unprecedented in size, from changing weather patterns that threaten food production, and to shed light on the models that scientists have used to contribute to understanding climate change and the factors directly affecting it. And indirect.
Among the lectures, complex systems are characterized by randomness and chaos, as well as difficulty in understanding, but the Nobel Prize in 2021 crowned the efforts of scientists who invented new ways to describe these systems and predict their behavior in the long term.
The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021 was awarded to three scientists: the Japanese Syokuro Manabe (90 years old), the German Klaus Hasselmann (89 years old), and the Italian Giorgio Baresi (73 years old), in recognition of their scientific contributions to the study of climate change. One of the complex systems of vital importance to humanity is the climate. On Earth, the Italian scientist received half the prize for “discovering the interaction of chaos and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales,” which are hidden patterns in complex, disordered matter. His discoveries are considered among the most important contributions to the theory of complex systems.
As for the other two scientists, they received the award for their work on “developing computer models of the Earth’s climate that can predict the effect of global warming.” Syokoro Manabe’s efforts focused on showing how increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lead to increased temperatures on the Earth’s surface.
