Passing of a legend | Stanford Daily

Schneider’s dedication was particularly highlighted during a serious battle with mantle cell lymphoma, a rare cancer, which he chronicled in a 2005 book titled, “The Patient from Hell.” He consistently fought for involvement in medical decisions [but he wasn't even a doctor!] about his health during the saga, which ended in his successful victory over the disease.
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In both climate change and his cancer struggle, Chadwick said, Schneider knew where to draw the line between scientific expertise and personal value judgment, constantly assessing risks along the way of an uncertain route.

Interview with Stephen Schneider on climate science expert credibility study (posting from Climate Science Watch)

It really matters what your credentials are. If you have a heart arrhythmia as I do, and I also have a cardiologist, and you also have an oncological problem as I do, I’m not going to my cancer doc to ask him about my heart medicine and my cardiologist to ask about my chemo, I’m going to the experts. Who’s an expert really matters. People with no expertise, their opinion frankly does not matter on complex issues. And in my opinion shouldn’t even be quoted when we’re talking about the details of the science.

The Global Warming Tipping Point by William Antholis & Strobe Talbott - The Globalist

Scientists are not yet sure about the net effect, although their tentative judgment is that increased cloud cover probably raises temperatures. By contrast, there is little doubt that the accelerated melting of ice caps and glaciers tends to swell rivers and raise sea levels.

As experts combine what they know with what they suspect may happen, they can imagine Biblical-scale floods, droughts and famines. Manhattan and much of Florida under water, breadbaskets turned into wastelands, a major change in the Gulf Stream that could bring Siberian winters to what is now temperate Europe

Science Centric | News | Wacky weather could squeeze Florida's citrus season

Citrus growers, beware. Florida winters are getting more extreme, causing plants to flower later and potentially shrinking the growing seasons for some of the state's most vital crops.