University of Wyoming professor draws scrutiny for energy industry-funded analyses

A new University of Wyoming professor has been criticized for being the energy industry's go-to academic for highlighting the positives, and not the negatives, of fossil fuel development.

The Breakthrough Institute: Time to Bury Cap and Trade and Plan Anew

Cap and trade has now died four times in the last seven years (this time, we can hope, for good). There is little evidence that Senate Democrats had substantially more votes for cap and trade this year than they did in 2003 (when it failed with 43 votes), 2005 (failed again with 38 votes) or 2008, when Reid also pulled the bill before it could go down in embarrassing defeat and insiders put the final tally at only 35-40 votes in support of the bill.

Amazon.com: Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth' Climate

Schneider’s chronology is a bit disjointed, and swipes at climate-change naysayers lower the discourse to a level his subject matter does not deserve.
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"Science As A Contact Sport unfolds the incredible true story of the struggle to understand the science and focus the world’s attention on the climate crisis. I have worked with Steve Schneider on the scientific and policy aspects of climate change for decades, and find him adept at bringing scientific clarity to this critical issue--explaining its many facets to concerned policymakers and the public." -Al Gore
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"Stephen Schneider is masterful at translating enormously complex scientific principles into a language that we can all comprehend."—Robert Redford

"Give Stephen Schneider points for prescience...The ominous warnings that he and other climatologists sounded...are coming true sooner.... –Newsweek.com
...He persuasively outlines a plan to avert the building threat and develop a positive, practical policy that will bring climate change back under our control, help the economy with a new generation of green energy jobs and productivity, and reduce the dependence on unreliable exporters of oil—and thus ensure a future for ourselves and our planet that’s as rich with promise as our past.