Thursday, January 03, 2013

A team led by Dr. Kevin Trenberth has been awarded the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Surface Water

I'm sure that if Trenberth finds that any of his prize dollars came from the oil industry, he'll refuse the prize.  He'll also probably refuse to travel to Riyadh for the awards ceremony unless he can do so without burning any fossil fuel.

Climate Communication | Science Advisor Kevin Trenberth Wins Surface Water Prize
A team led by Dr. Kevin Trenberth has been awarded the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Surface Water. The prize is awarded for “ground-breaking work that provides a powerful estimate of the effects of climate change on the global hydrological cycle, with a clear explanation of the global water budget.”
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The awards ceremony will be held in Riyadh on 6 January 2013,
Current Award (6th) 2014
[I think Trenberth's team won the 2013 prize--I don't know the dollar value] Each of the four Specialized prizes is worth US$ 133,000. Researchers, research teams, and organizations nominate themselves for these Prizes:

4 comments:

Sean said...

Imagine what the price would have been worth is he'd found the missing heat in the oceans!!

Harry Dale Huffman said...

Don't miss the real point, Sean (and everyone else). This is just more propaganda, piled on now while the Insane Left thinks the time is right after the re-election of Obama, to reassure the geeks (the public, whom they are determined to delude and mislead) that Trenberth and his fellow consensus leading scientists are unquestionable authorities, instead of the incompetents and ideological activists they are (alarmist environmental ideology, that is).

Sean said...

Harry,

The Nobel Committee has laid no doubt about the real purpose of awarding prizes in this era. The public HAS wised up.

papertiger said...

Every soap, there's a prize in side.