Three scientists have won the Nobel prize for their groundbreaking work in the fight against climate change. 

Japanese-born American Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann and Italian Giorgio Parisi shared the joint prize in Physics, with the acknowledgement being hailed as a sign of a consensus forming around man-made global warming by the UN Weather Agency.

Mr Parisi is known for his earlier climate studies on patterns in gasses and liquids, which he believes can also lead to further developments in neuroscience and machine learning.