About the Author:
Stephen H. Schneider, recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant”
and the collective 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with his colleagues
on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has been an
expert adviser to the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, both Bush,
and Obama administrations. He is the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor
for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biology,
Professor by Courtesy of Civil and Environmental Engineering and
a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at
Stanford.
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with Dan Rather, March 1977 while filming the CBS program,
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Schneider
was elected to the US National Academy of Science in 2002
and received the National Conservation Achievement Award
from the National Wildlife Foundation and the Edward T.
Law Roe Award of the Society of Conservation Biology in
2003. He disseminates his message not only to students,
but also to the general public, other scientists, climate
change stakeholders and political figures through public
lectures, seminars, classroom teaching, environmental assessment
committees, media appearances, Congressional testimony,
and research collaboration with colleagues. Schneider founded
the journal, Climatic Change in 1975 serves as
its Editor. His books include The Genesis Strategy:
Climate and Global Survival, Global Warming: Are
We Entering the Greenhouse Century?, The Coevolution
of Climate and Life, Laboratory Earth: The Planetary
Gamble We can’t Afford to Lose, Wildlife
Responses to Climate Change, and Climate Change
Science and Policy.
Schneider has written for, and his work has
been covered by hundreds of news organizations including, the
New York Times, the Washington Post, and the London Times. He
has appeared on “Nova,” “The Tonight Show, ”
“20/20,” “The Today Show,” “Good
Morning America,” NPR, and Canadian and Australian media
among scores of others. He lives in California.
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