STEPHEN H. SCHNEIDER (1945 - 2010)
Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies
Professor, Department of Biology
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
Professor, by courtesy, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/
Outspoken researcher had received death threats in past year
Stephen H. Schneider, a pre-eminent Stanford climatologist who persistently called for action to curb global warming, died early Monday. He was 65.
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He died today of a heart attack on a flight from London to Stockholm.
His research included modeling of the atmosphere, climate change, and "the relationship of biological systems to global climate change." Schneider was the founder and editor of the journal Climatic Change and authored or co-authored over 450 scientific papers and other publications. He was a Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group II IPCC TAR and was engaged as a co-anchor of the Key Vulnerabilities Cross-Cutting Theme for the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) at the time of his death. During the 1980s, Schneider emerged as a leading public advocate of sharp reductions of greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming.
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Stephen Schneider: for decades, the most courageous, valuable,
and dedicated advisor to climate science educators in the U.S.
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One of the earliest, strongest, and most consistent voices on Climate Change. Stephen Schneider sounded a strikingly prescient alarm in 1979.
It shocks me that in our time that a person of science received death threats. This is not Medieval Europe where the Church fears losing support if it is proven that the sun does not revolve the earth, this is the 21st century.
Today we have lost a person of reason in an increasingly unreasonable world.
May he rest in peace.