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title: A great leader
date: 2010-07-20T04:46:29Z
modified: 2010-07-20T09:36:31Z
permalink: "https://350.org/great-leader/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 18251
author: Bill McKibben
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![](https://global-warming.accuweather.com/dr-stephen-schneider-thumb.jpg)

It's with great sadness that we bring you news of the passing today of Stephen Schneider, a giant of climate science. I've known and admired him for a quarter century–he's one of the reasons that we know the trouble we're in, and the possible ways out. He was a friend of 350.org, and a friend of the one sweet planet we all inhabit.