I don't recommend reading the article unless you already understand that it is absolute, complete BS. The hilarious truth is that no computer model has ever correctly predicted actual changes in temperature for the planet. So giving awards to people who helped to create those inaccurate models is asinine. 

The majority of physical geographical scientists ( who are not connected politically to AGW proponent organizations/ funding) have emphatically scoffed at the idea that accurate models of the dynamics of climatic temperature changes are even possible, owing to the insane complexity and enormity of the physics involved and the glaring fact that predictions based on these same models have never matched actual changes observed.  

So it's really like a big, fancy, Marxist "participation" award. They are being honored for their "efforts" to prove AGW is real. They are being paid for being "advocates" for ecoparanoia. 

AGW remains a speculative conjecture, not a theory, because to qualify as a theory, observations must match predictions based on the theoretical principles. They never have.

The word "discoveries" should be in scorn quotes. The only real discovery is that they have always been and continue to be dead wrong in every way that counts. 

The pro-AGW scientific community has thrown in with nonsense like radiative carbon forcing conjectures which have never been proven in any observation outside the laboratory. The effect can only be created in a lab, never actually observed in the actual planet's physical systems.