<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Associated Press December 7, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Nobel Laureate: Face Up to Climate Change, Because There’s No Escaping Earth</b></span></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">An astronomer who shares this year’s Nobel physics prize for discovering a planet outside the Earth’s solar system is </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">taking issue with people who shrug off climate change on the grounds that humans will eventually leave for distant planets.</span></span></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.snopes.com/ap/2019/12/07/nobel-laureate-face-up-to-climate-change-because-theres-no-escaping-earth/" class="">https://www.snopes.com/ap/2019/12/07/nobel-laureate-face-up-to-climate-change-because-theres-no-escaping-earth/</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">STOCKHOLM (AP) — An astronomer who shares this year’s Nobel physics prize for discovering a planet outside the Earth’s solar system is taking issue with people who shrug off climate change on the grounds that humans will eventually leave for distant planets.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Didier Queloz was </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">one of several Nobel laureates who spoke about climate change at a news conference Saturday in Stockholm.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“I think this is just irresponsible, because the stars are so far away I think we should not have any serious hope to escape the Earth,” Queloz said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“Also keep in mind that </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">we are a species that has evolved and developed for this planet. We’re not built to survive on any other planet than this one,” he sai</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">d. “We’d better spend our time and energy trying to fix it.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Several other Nobel winners also urged that climate change be taken seriously. The remarks came as a two-week global summit on climate change is taking place in Madrid.</span></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Esther Duflo, one of the Nobel economics laureates, cautioned that dealing with climate change </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">“will require a change in behavior, particularly in the rich countries” that are heavy consumers of goods and energy.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">She disagreed with those who believe there is no need to consume less as long as that consumption is fueled by renewable energy.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">“It would be great if that were the case but I don’t think we can count on it necessarily,” Duflo said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">M. Stanley Whittingham, who shared this year’s Nobel chemistry award for helping to develop lithium-ion batteries, said “to help solve the climate issue, the time is right now, but we have to be pragmatic. … We can’t just turn off all the CO2.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><font color="#252525" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Canadian-American James Peebles, who won half of this year’s 9-million-kronor ($948,000) Nobel physics prize for studying what happened soon after the Big Bang, later told The Associated Press that he is</font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> excited about the current wave of youthful climate change protesters.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“I see these people in Princeton, my hometown, as they go marching for control of climate. It is a wonderful thing. I love their enthusiasm, their energy, their devotion to something very worthwhile,” he said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Whittingham also told the AP that he believed the climate protests would produce results.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“Maybe some of the young folks don’t realize how long it takes. But I go back to the Vietnam War era and the United States, where it was really the young people that pushed the politicians to get out and stop that nonsense,” he said.</span></p><div class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
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