Who received the Nobel Prize for giving scientific evidence that climate change is due to both natural and anthropogenic reasons?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Rajendra Pachauri
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was shared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the former US Vice-President Al Gore, for building up and spreading knowledge about man-made climate change. The IPCC's assessment reports gather the scientific evidence on how natural causes and human (anthropogenic) activity drive the warming of the Earth.
Rajendra Pachauri, the Indian scientist who chaired the IPCC from 2002 to 2015, received the prize on the panel's behalf at Oslo.