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Posted on 01/02/2008 11:55:00 AM PST by NormsRevenge
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Bert Bolin, a pioneering Swedish climate scientist and co-founder of the U.N.'s Nobel award-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has died, his colleague Henning Rodhe said Wednesday. He was 82.
As early as the 1950s, Bolin produced research about the circulation of carbon in nature that remains relevant to the continuing debate on climate change.
Most importantly, he played a key role in communicating the dangers of climate change to decision-makers and served as the first chairman of the IPCC from 1988 to 1998.
He died in a Stockholm hospital from stomach cancer, but was active until three days before he died, said Rodhe, a professor in chemical meteorology at Stockholm University.
"He was an eminent organizer and leader and played an important role internationally in establishing links between scientists and decision-makers," Rodhe said.
"He was very happy that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the IPCC and Al Gore. He was especially pleased about the fact that the prize was split in two, to award both the pure scientific work and the work to communicate these issues to the general public," he added.
During his visit to Sweden in December Al Gore praised Bolin, saying: "Bert, you set up the framework for the IPCC and without your contributions we would not have come to where we are today (..) Thank you for starting the process."
When he found out he got the Nobel prize, Gore first called IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri, and after that Bolin, he said.
According to Stockholm University, Bolin was initially supposed to travel to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, but was unable to do so due to poor health.
He completed his Ph.D. at Stockholm University in 1956, and was Professor of Meteorology there between 1961 and 1990. He has also been the scientific director of the European Space Agency, or ESA.
He received many awards for his research about the climate, including the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal in 1984, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1988 and the Blue Planet Prize in 1995.
His last book 'A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change' was published in November 2007.
How about “He was an evil little man who tried to push world-wide slavery via world-wide socialism via world-wide ecofraud.”
R.I.P.
History will not be kind.
His decay will release carbon into the atmosphere. Has he planned for this?
Oh—so Global Warming was another Socialist plot?
He will be permanently sealed in plastic and put in the passenger seat of Algore's SUV so Al can drive in the carpool lane.
No, I’m not Norm, but my husband, the Environmental Scientist in our family says emphatically, “yes”.
The so-called "environmental movement" is indeed an anti-capitalist campaign.
The beauty of "Global Warming" or "Global Climate Change" is that whatever severe weather or possibly troublesome geological or oceanographic or biological phenomenon that occurs anywhere on earth can be blamed on Western industrial capitalism, and the remedy is the empowerment of the global socialist bureaucracies of the United Nations.
It's the Perfect Crisis!
the global warming was detailed in THE HUMANIST MANIFESTO.
However, since his breathing has presumably stopped, he will no longer exhale CO2 and can be claimed as a carbon credit by paying a small stipend to his estate.
Too late, your in line behind Al Gore and John Edwards.
RIP.
No—I believe in natural weather patterns. I was in college when we feared nuclear winter. Right now, I’d like my share of global warning as today is a bitterly cold one.
So, is he cold NOW?
We, as a society, find ourselves confronted with a spectrum of potentially catastrophic and irreversible environmental problems, for which conventional approaches will not suffice in providing solutions. These problems are characterized, above all, by their unpredictability. This means that surprise is to be expected, and that sudden qualitative shifts in dynamics present serious problems for management. In general, it is difficult to detect strong signals of change early enough to motivate effective solutions, or even to develop scientific consensus on a time scale rapid enough to allow effective solution. Furthermore, such signals, even when detected, are likely to be displaced in space or sector from the source, so that the motivation for action is small. Conventional market mechanisms thus will be inadequate to address these challenges.
In other words, “trust us, communism is the only answer”
Now thats what I call committed to CO2 emission reduction.
One less shyster to worry about.
AP Weasel Word Special!
The writer is attempting to draw a direct causational link but is too cowardly to do so...hence the choice of 'relevant.'
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