Stephen Schneider Dead: Stanford Climatologist And Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dies At 65

Stephen Schneider, a Stanford University scientist who served on the international research panel on global warming that shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with former Vice President Al Gore, has died. He was 65.

Schneider died of an apparent heart attack Monday while on a flight from Stockholm to London, Stanford officials said.

Schneider studied climate change for decades and wrote a number of books charting its effects on wildlife and ecosystems in the United States, and later chronicled its effect on the nation's politics and policy. He advised every presidential administration from Nixon to Obama.