Climate scientist Stephen Schneider has died

On this very sad note, climate scientist Stephen H. Schneider passed away today. Schneider has been a rather high profile research scientist going back to the early 1970s.  He wrote a book last year called "Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate."

Schneider, who recently fought and seemingly won a battle with the rare cancer, mantle cell lymphoma, apparently had a heart attack as his flight was landing in London.  He was 65 years old.

Only a few weeks ago he was co-author on a new study that demonstrated that 97-98% of climate scientists concurred with the scientific consensus.

For more information, please read this article from Dot.Earth's Andrew Revkin.

Here's another by Climate Progress author Joe Romm.

Ben Santer, a climate researcher who, like Schneider, was the target of vicious and baseless attacks by the denialist industry, offered a wonderful eulogy posted on the RealClimate blog.

And here is another, with links to several more wonderful tributes.

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