A fine portrait of Syukuro Manabe - known to friends as Suki - the person who first showed how global warming worked.
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He was a patient student. Struggling to follow some of his professors’ lectures, he learned meteorological physics at his own pace, and had to retake at least one exam. But, when Manabe and his fellow graduate students used these physics equations to predict the weather, he emerged as one of the stars of the department. Lacking access to a computer, the students made calculations on graph paper by hand. “I would spend hours drawing contour lines,” Manabe told me. He seemed nostalgic for the practice: “Drawing contours yourself, you can begin to notice things you’ve never noticed before. Maybe this primitive process is good, in some sense.”
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