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Throughout his career, he has served on a number of committees dealing with all aspects of climate change,
including the Committee on Paleoclimatology and Climatic Change of the American Meteorological Society, the
Climate Dynamics Panel of the National Academy of Sciences, the Climate Sensitivity Group, the Advisory and
Planning Committee for Social Indicators of the Social Science Research Council, the Advisory and Planning
Committee of the U.S. National Climate Program Advisory Committee, and the Scienti c Advisory Committee of
the World Climate Studies Program of the United Nations Environment Programme. He was also the head of
NCAR's Interdisciplinary Climate Systems Section from 1987 to 1992. He has testi ed before Congressional
committees on numerous occasions and has advised presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter as well as
candidates for the presidency and other o ces.
Schneider is a proli c author with numerous books, book chapters, scholarly papers and popular articles,
editorials, and book reviews to his credit. Some of his best known books are The Genesis Strategy: Climate and
Global Survival (with Lynne E. Mesirow, Plenum, 1976), Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse
Century? (1989), Laboratory Earth: the Planetary Gamble We Can't A ord to Lose (1997), Wildlife Responses to
Climate Change: North American Case Studies (with Terry L. Root, eds2001), and Climate Change Policy: A Survey
(with Armin Rosencranz and John O. Niles, eds 2002). In 1992, Schneider received a MacArthur fellowship. In
1991, he accepted the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Westinghouse Award for Public
Understanding of Science and Technology. In 2003, he received the National Conservation Achievement Award of
the National Wildlife Federation and the Edward T. Law Roe Award of the Society of Conservation Biology.
David E. Newton
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