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Climate scientist Stephen Schneider dies

JUL 20, 2010
Physics Today
San Francisco Chronicle : The eminent climate scientist Stephen Schneider died yesterday of a heart attack. He was 65. Schneider’s research focused on the effects of carbon dioxide and aerosols. He was also a strong proponent of mitigating the effects of greenhouse gases. In a recent paper , he and his coauthors used citation data to demonstrate that 98% of the world’s top climate scientists believe that greenhouse gases are warming our planet.
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