Bert Bolin
Bert Rickard Johannes Bolin ( pronunciation : [ ˌbæʈː bʊˈliːn ], born March 15, 1925 in Nyköping , † December 30, 2007 in Österåker near Stockholm ) was a Swedish meteorologist and climate researcher .
life and work
Bolin graduated from Stockholm University with a degree in meteorology in 1956 with a dissertation. From 1961 to 1990 he was a professor at the same university. He made a name for himself in the fields of dynamic and chemical meteorology, investigated the effects of greenhouse gases , especially carbon dioxide , on the atmosphere and was considered early on in his home country as the “nestor of climate research”.
In 1988 Bolin was one of the founders of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and served as its first chairman between 1988 and 1997. Al Gore , who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said Bolin did a lot to understand the growing threat posed by climate change . John Houghton , director of the British Met Office until 1991 and first head of Working Group I of the IPCC, described Bolin as an obvious choice for chairing the panel, both because of his influence and reputation as a scientist, his contagious enthusiasm and his political and diplomatic skills Experience.
Since 1994 Bolin was a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences , since 1997 of the National Academy of Sciences .
Awards
Bolin has received several awards for his work. He received the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal in 1984 and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1988 . In 1995 he was awarded the Japanese Blue Planet Prize , the world's most important award for merit in environmental science.
Fonts (excerpt)
- A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change . Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-511-72173-1 (on the history of international scientific cooperation in climate research and the institutionalization of international climate policy).
literature
- Bob Watson: Bert Bolin (1925-2008). Pioneering climate scientist and communicator. Nature 451, 2008, p. 642
Web links
- Literature by and about Bert Bolin in the catalog of the German National Library
- IPCC Chairman Bert Bolin Builds Consensus ( November 16, 2002 memento in Internet Archive ), article by Nick Sundt, Global Change (Electronic Division), July 1995.
- Lecture on the work of Bolin (WebEx)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sveriges dödbok 1901-2013 , version 6.0, Sveriges släktforskarförbund, Solna 2014 (DVD-ROM). ISBN 9789187676642
- ↑ Svensk klimatnestor har avlidit Dagens Nyheter, January 2 2008
- ^ IPCC co-founder Bert Bolin has died , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 2, 2008
- ^ John Houghton: In the Eye of the Storm . Lion Books, 2013, ISBN 978-0-7459-5584-1 , pp. 133-134, 207 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bolin, Bert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bolin, Bert Rickard Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish meteorologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nykoping |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 2007 |
| Place of death | Österåker |