Bert Bolin
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Oct 11, 2026
Jacob Nordangård, “The Capture of Academia – The Case of Climate Change”
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15:52Jacob NordangårdGUEST
Only eight months later, he died of a heart attack while attending a conference in Stockholm.
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15:59Jacob NordangårdGUEST
His former doctoral student Bert Bohlin and successor as department head was the editor of TELUS and would play a pivotal role during the 1970s and 80s in placing anthropogenic global warming at the top of the scientific agenda.
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16:18Jacob NordangårdGUEST
Bohlin had worked with mathematician John von Neumann, at Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during his time as a doctoral student.
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16:28Jacob NordangårdGUEST
An institute with deep ties to the Rockefeller network.
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16:33Jacob NordangårdGUEST
Institute for Advanced Study and Jan von Neumann was instrumental in using computers for weather forecasting.
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37:13Jacob NordangårdGUEST
In 2006, Rockefeller Brothers Fund declared that the science of global warming was settled and no longer worth debating.
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37:21Jacob NordangårdGUEST
That same year, former Vice President Al Gore's climate documentary An Inconvenient Truth helped propel the climate issue to the top of the global political agenda.
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37:32Jacob NordangårdGUEST
Al Gore had during the late 1960s been student of Roger Well at Harvard Center for Population Studies.