William Lee Steffen was born in Norfolk, Neb., on June 25, 1947. His father was a Lutheran minister and his mother a homemaker. Dr. Steffen studied chemistry at the University of Missouri and received a PhD from the University of Florida in 1975, before moving to Australia to be a postdoctoral student at Australian National University in Canberra.
He developed a long history of international research collaborations, including contributing to five assessment reports by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to the university,From 2004 to 2011, he served as science adviser to the Australian government’s Department of Climate Change — a posting that included a
, substantially stemming from how the country should respond to climate change. In 2013, he helped set up the Climate Council nonprofit after a right-wing prime minister dissolved the government-backed independent climate advisory panel that he was a member of.in 2011 that he had received death threats over his climate change views. “There is no debate in the scientific community about this,” he said, likening Australia’s conversation on climate to a flat-Earth debate.
It is with profound sorrow that we share news of the passing of our dear colleague and our friend Professor Will Steffen.
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'climate denialism'. Good grief, what an idiotic phrase.
And now he’s compost.
Liar
Prayers