Stanford University climate scientist Stephen Schneider died today at the age of 65. Andy Revkin has posted a brief account of Schneider's critical contributions to climate science and policy. And the Washington Post has this:
In 1992, he received a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation for his research.
"Steve, more than anything, whether you agreed with him or not, forced us to confront this real possibility of climate change," Jeff Koseff, Schneider's colleague at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment, said in a statement.
Schneider also was a leader in research seeking to quantify future effects of climate change on various areas - from the insurance industry to farming - to help guide policy decisions, said Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences.
continued at Daily Kos....
