Fly Fishing People: James McCarthy

April 8, 2008 By: Marshall Cutchin

Oceanographer and Harvard professor James McCarthy co-chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from 1997-2001. Last year the Panel shared the Nobel Prize for Peace with Al Gore. His hobbies? Fly fishing, telemark skiing, woodworking, and polar history. “And I do all my own auto repairs, and my cars are over 15 years old.” Billy Baker in the Boston Globe.