Bert Bolin was a respected Swedish meteorologist who wrote an important early report on acid rain in 1971. He later helped found the IPCC and served as its first chair from 1988–1997. He was also one of the few scientists who publicly defended climate research against the “merchants of doubt” and their George C. Marshall Institute.
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Bert Bolin Character Timeline in Merchants of Doubt
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Chapter 3
...coal were causing acid rain in remote places like Hubbard Brook. In 1971, Swedish meteorologist Bert Bolin published the first comprehensive report on acid rain’s significant environmental dangers, and over the next...
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Chapter 6
...they had done for ozone a few years before. They formed the IPCC and named Bert Bolin as its first chair. The administration also began investing in climate change research.
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...the George C. Marshall Institute continued blaming the sun and publishing erroneous graphs, even after Bert Bolin and other climate scientists publicly corrected them, and the White House continued listening to the...
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...deleting the forty other scientists’ names. The Journal also heavily edited a similar letter from Bert Bolin and the IPCC chairman John Houghton. The American Meteorological Society independently republished the letters to...
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