And the prominent US climatologist Stephen Schneider has died at the age of sixty-five. Schneider taught at Stanford and was part of a United Nations panel of climate change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. He founded the journal Climatic Change. Stephen Schneider often talked about the urgency of addressing global warming.

Stephen Schneider: “And we started out saying sort of 'Houston, there's a problem’ in 1990. Then we said, not only is there a problem, but the humans are part of it, in 1995. In 2000, Terry Root added, 'And plants and animals are in it, too.' And now we said, not only is there a problem, but it hurts the poor more than the rich, it hurts the vulnerable in Hurricane Alley and in high mountains and in the Arctic and in Mediterranean climates like California more than others, and that we’ve got to get on with solving this before we really end up with a lot of key vulnerabilities and serious, dangerous outcomes. We should have started twenty-five years ago, so let’s get on with it.”