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Four San Francisco-Area Climate Researchers Win E.O. Lawrence Award.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2002

By Andrea Widener, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 27--LIVERMORE, Calif.--Ben Santer has spent a career trying to uncover humans' influence on a warming global climate.

So you can imagine Santer's shock to receive a prestigious national research award from a presidential administration that has, among other things, renounced the international Kyoto treaty on climate change.

The political irony doesn't make the recognition less sweet for Santer, a world-recognized researcher who will receive the E.O. Lawrence Award along with three other Bay Area winners, the Department of Energy announced Thursday.

He is the first climate change scientist to win the 42-year-old award, which...

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