Stephen Schneider Award Winners
ShareEpisodes featuring winners of the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication.
Ben Santer: 2023 Schneider Award Winner
December 22, 2023
Every year Climate One honors a scientist who makes breakthroughs and delivers them to a broad public with the Stephen H. Schneider Award for...
Stefan Rahmstorf: 2022 Schneider Award Winner
December 16, 2022
Every year, we grant an award in memory of pioneering climate scientist Steve Schneider, a who fiercely took on the denial machine from the 1970s...
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Naomi Oreskes: The Schneider Award
December 30, 2021
Established in honor of Dr. Stephen H. Schneider, one of the founding fathers of climatology, Climate One’s Schneider Award recognizes a natural...
Varying Degrees: Climate Change in the American Mind
January 29, 2021
A decade ago, a nationwide survey showed that only around twelve percent of Americans were seriously concerned about climate change. Today, public...
Dr. Robert Bullard: The Father of Environmental Justice
December 13, 2019
Climate One honors Robert Bullard with the ninth annual Stephen Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communications. Often described as...
Katharine Hayhoe: Why We Need to Talk About Climate Change
February 8, 2019
Many of us find it daunting to talk with our neighbors, colleagues and family members about climate change. But climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe...
On the Ice with Michael Mann
January 17, 2018
The so-called hockey stick papers, published in 1999, ignited an assault on the science of climate change that still rages to this day. But lead...
The Sixth Annual Stephen Schneider Award: Naomi Oreskes and Steven Chu
December 16, 2016
Science historian Naomi Oreskes has had her share of hate mail from climate deniers. But, she says, “We can't give up on the challenge of...
Dr. Chris Field – The Stephen Schneider Award
January 10, 2016
The latest recipient of the Stephen Schneider Award calls COP21 “a turning point,” but warns that there’s still much to be done to combat...
Dr. Jane Lubchenco
December 17, 2014
Jane Lubchenco oversaw NOAA during the worst 4-year weather period in U.S. history. What can we do to predict – or mitigate – future weather...
Lord Nicholas Stern: The 2013 Stephen Schneider Award
December 12, 2013
"I don't think there's any right to emit, I think there's a right to development," said former World Bank chief economist Lord Nicholas Stern, a...
Dr. James Hansen: the 2012 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication
December 4, 2012
Dr. James Hansen, NASA climatologist, on communicating climate change to the next generation, human fingerprints on Superstorm Sandy, and...
The Stephen Schneider Award
December 6, 2011
The event is a moving tribute to the late Stanford University climatologist Stephen Schneider, as Richard Alley is honored as the inaugural winner...