11 Facts About Yuri Izrael

Yuri Antonievich Izrael was a Soviet and Russian meteorologist.

Yuri Izrael served as the vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change until September 2008, when the new bureau was elected.

Yuri Izrael was the "most influential scientific adviser" for Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, according to CNN.

Yuri Izrael served as director of the Institute of Global Climate and Ecology, which is a part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Yuri Izrael was a first vice-president of the World Meteorological Organization and helped develop the World Weather Watch.

In 1992, Izrael won the International Meteorological Organization Prize and the UNEP Sasakawa Environment Prize for, among other accomplishments, contributing to the "success of Working Group I I" of the IPCC.

On January 16,2004, the first meeting of a scientific seminar on the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol took place at the Russian Academy of Sciences, when Yuri Izrael Israel headed the seminar.

Yuri Izrael proposed to influence the climate by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and introducing an additional amount of aerosols into the stratosphere.

Yuri Izrael pointed to the dual role of carbon dioxide: doubling its quantity in the atmosphere made it possible to increase the yields of major crops, but this fact was outweighed by the negative aspects of anthropogenic warming.

Yuri Izrael was chairman of the State Committee on Hydrometeorology at the time of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Yuri Izrael was criticized for allowing air pollution throughout the Soviet Union to reach unprecedented levels.