PASSIONATE climate scientist Stephen Schneider has died while flying to London from a meeting in Stockholm, apparently from a heart attack.
A long-time biologist and climate scientist with Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and 2006 Adelaide Thinker in Residence, Professor Schneider attended the Climate Adaptation Futures Conference on the Gold Coast last month. He died Monday, aged 65.
Professor Schneider was an outspoken opponent of climate change sceptics such as University of Adelaide mining geologist Ian Plimer, author of Heaven & Earth.
Barry Brook, director of climate science at the University of Adelaide’s Environment Institute reflected: “Many of the top researchers in this field drew real inspiration for Steve’s work and his inspiration and insights will be sorely missed”.
Despite struggling with health problems following remission from a rare form of cancer, Professor Schneider was a lead scientist on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
This month he co-authored a survey of 1372 climate researchers, concluding 97-98 per cent of those most actively publishing in the field agreed humans are contributing to global warming.
California climate scientist Ben Santer with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory concluded: “He was fearless”.
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