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.
I have a very close friend who is an Environmental Scientist. I tell him he's "full of it" when he says that global warming and climate change are man made. Green-house gases are only part of the equation. And man-made is a very very small part of those gases. Man contributes to the greenhouse gases but if our planet had NEVER been populated by humans we would still have cycles of warming and cooling.
PS: Not sure if your husband is a "Climatologist". Only a small percentage of scientists in the EPA are.
And he's been dead for 30 years!!!
It IS a plot based on flawed logic. Warming up CAUSES increased CO2 levels after several hundred years, not vice versa.
It is known for more than 100 years. This is THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH for Gore and his fellow shysters
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It's your opportunity to beat him. Ask your husband if he ever heard of Milankovitch Cycles
Kids in Europe know about it. You can not imagine how anyone speaking about CO2 related warming looks stupid or crooked in their eyes.
Gore made over $100 on this scam so far.
Translation: We can’t control nature so we will do our best to scare the H_LL out of y’all!
or is he quite warm?
Ooooo, good point!
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No need to beat him :), I was answering for him regarding post #5. He has been saying that Gore has been scamming the gullables from the beginning.
This is so far back in todays posts I am reluctant to post a response, but I couldn’t help but laugh when reading your post thinking “Professor Erwin Corey...Is that YOU?”
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