Bert Bolin | Climate scientist, 82

Bert Bolin, 82, a Swedish climate scientist and cofounder of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning U.N. panel on climate change, has died.
Dr. Bolin died Sunday at a Stockholm hospital from stomach cancer but was active until three days before his death, said his colleague Henning Rodhe, a professor in chemical meteorology at Stockholm University.
He completed his Ph.D. at Stockholm University in 1956. Early on, he produced research about the circulation of carbon in nature that remains relevant to the debate on climate change. He played a key role in communicating the dangers of climate change and served as the first chairman of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from 1988 to 1998.
The panel won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former Vice President Al Gore for alerting the world to the threat of global warming.

- AP