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Nobel winner Syukuro Manabe ‘had great fun’ studying climate change

Climatologist Syukuro Manabe gives a press conference at Princeton University after winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on modeling global warming, saying he "never imagined that this thing I would begin to study has such huge consequences".

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