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Fritz Vahrenholt (born 8 May 1949) is a German politician (SPD), industrialist, and climate change denier.
Biography
editVahrenholt was born in Gelsenkirchen-Buer. He studied chemistry in Mรผnster and started his professional career at the federal Umweltbundesamt (environmental protection agency) in Berlin and the Ministry for Environment of Hesse. From 1984 till 1990 he was in a leading role in Hamburg, first as a Staatsrat (Councilor) for the Hamburg Department of the Environment. From 1990 to 1991 he led the Senatskanzlei (Hamburg Senate Chancellery). Then he was Umweltsenator (senator for the environment) in Hamburg from 1991 to 1997.[1]
In 1998 he entered the energy industry and until 2001 was on the Board of Deutsche Shell AG, a Shell subsidiary. In 2001 he moved to post of CEO of the wind turbine company REpower Systems AG and remained there until 2007. From February 2008 to June 2012 he was CEO of electric power company RWE subsidiary RWE Innogy and remains on the supervisory board. Vahrenholt has a doctorate in chemistry. In 1999 he was made an Honorary Professor of chemistry at the University of Hamburg.[1][2][3]
2012 Vahrenholt was elected chair of Deutsche Wildtier Stiftung, a German foundation for the preservation of wildlife in Germany.[4] In 2019, he was ejected with immediate effect from this function.[5]
Vahrenholt is chairman of the supervisory board of the largest European copper company Aurubis.
Global warming denial
editVahrenholt belongs to the minority that is dismissive about human-induced global warming. In 2012 Vahrenholt together with geologist Sebastian Lรผning published Die kalte Sonne: warum die Klimakatastrophe nicht stattfindet[6][7] (The Cold Sun: Why the Climate Crisis Isn't Happening), a book asserting that climate change is driven by variations in solar activity. They predict the Earth is entering a cooling phase due to periodic solar cycles, and will cool by 0.2 to 0.3 degrees C by 2035.[3] Other contributors are Nir Shaviv, Werner Weber, Henrik Svensmark and Nicola Scafetta. Numerous scientists, including the Council for Sustainable Development[8][9] , criticised the book and considered its underlying assumptions to be either outdated or highly speculative.[10][11][12][13]
References
edit- ^ a b "Fritz Vahrenholt". Koepfe der Wirtschaft. Wirtschafts Woche. Archived from the original on 2014-10-07. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae: Prof. Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt". RWE. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved February 17, 2012., also .
- ^ a b "Breaking Global Warming Taboos: 'I Feel Duped on Climate Change'". Spiegel Online International. 2012-02-08. Retrieved February 17, 2012.
- ^ press release of Deutsche Wildtier Stiftung 2012
- ^ "Kollateralschaden eines Rauswurfs". 21 December 2019.
- ^ Vahrenholt, Fritz; Lรผning, Sebastian (2012). Die kalte Sonne: warum die Klimakatastrophe nicht stattfindet. Hoffmann und Campe. ISBNย 978-3-455-50250-3.
- ^ Vahrenholt, Fritz; Lรผning, Sebastian (2015). The Neglected Sun: Why the Sun Precludes Climate Catastrophe (2nd Englishย ed.). Arlington Heights, Illinois: Heartland Institute. ISBNย 9781934791547. OCLCย 976435873.
- ^ Bachmann, Gรผnther; Tรถpfer, Klaus (March 15, 2012). "'Total falsche Antworten': Fritz Vahrenholt irrt: Der Klimawandel ist real". Die Zeit. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
- ^ "Pressemitteilung des Max-Planck-Instituts fรผr Meteorologie zum Buch "Die kalte Sonne"; "Rein natรผrliche Schwankungen - wie etwa รnderungen der Sonnenaktivitรคt - kรถnnen hingegen nicht hauptsรคchlich fรผr die globale Erwรคrmung in den letzten Jahrzehnten verantwortlich sein, auch wenn das kรผrzlich erschienene Buch von Vahrenholt und Lรผning dies behauptet."". Max-Planck-Institut. Feb 6, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-05-11. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
- ^ Toralf Staud (August 10, 2012). "Klimawandel-Debatte: Forscher fรผhlen sich von Klimaskeptiker Vahrenholt instrumentalisiert". Die Zeit. zeit.de. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
- ^ Michael Odenwald (July 30, 2012). "Umstrittenes Buch "Die kalte Sonne": Halbwahrheiten รผber die CO2-Lรผge". Focus Online. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
- ^ Toralf Staud (June 11, 2013). "Erderwรคrmung: Skeptiker im Faktencheck". Die Zeit. zeit.de. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
- ^ Sven Titz (March 16, 2012). "Rezension Die kalte Sonne, Fritz Vahrenholt, Sebastian Lรผning". spektrum.de. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
External links
edit- Die Kalte Sonne (in German) Vahrenholt and Lรผning's blog regarding their climate change theories.
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