Stephen Schneider is an American climatologist who pioneered three-dimensional climate modeling. Schneider is known for his ability to integrate and interpret the results of global climate research through public lectures, seminars, classroom teaching, environmental assessment committees, media appearances, and Congressional testimony. He is the founding editor of Climatic Change, among the first journals to foster interdisciplinary inquiry into the totality of the problem of climatic variability and change – its descriptions, causes, implications and interactions. Schneider is lauded by many scientists for his ability to bring the climate change issue into public view as well as for his ability to distill complex scientific issues into terms that are comprehensible to policy makers and the general public. During the 1980s Schneider emerged as a leading public advocate of sharp reductions of greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming. However, climate change skeptics have argued that Schneider exaggerates the risks associated with climate change.

Schneider is Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, Co-Director at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. He has served as a consultant to Federal Agencies and/or White House staff in the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. 

Sources

• Cleveland, Cutler (Lead Author); Peter Saundry (Topic Editor). 2008. "Schneider, Stephen H.." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth March 8, 2007; Last revised May 15, 2008; Retrieved May 21, 2009]. 
• Wikipedia Contributors, Stephen Schneider, Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, Accessed 21 May 2009.