Scepticism

Hamburger Abendblatt Defends Vahrenholt & Lüning, Slams Germany’s Culture Of Intolerance

Hamburger Abendblatt Defends Vahrenholt & Lüning, Slams Germany’s Culture Of Intolerance

Matthias Iken has written a piece at the online German daily Hamburger Abendblatt here on Germany’s reaction to Fritz Vahrenholt’s and Sebastian Lüning’s climate skeptical bestselling book “Die kalte Sonne“. His piece is titled: The Intolerant Society. Needless to say, the reaction to Germany’s bestselling skeptic book has been brutally harsh. In his piece, Iken reminds [...]

Fritz Vahrenholt, left, gives a major interview with a leading Austiran daily

Fritz Vahrenholt In Major Newspaper Interview: “We Need An Explanation On Why There’s Been No Warming Since 2000″

Fritz Vahrenholt gives a comprehensive interview with leading Austrian daily KURIER here. The interview covers a number of areas. But a few points I found particularly interesting. On the lack of warming since 2000, the KURIER asks if it’s too short of a time period. Of course it is. But we still need an explanation [...]

NDR says Vahrenholt has opted to join another world".

German NDR Public Television Sends Message To Vahrenholt And Skeptics: “You Belong In The Sewer!”

Germany’s media is sick and intolerant at times, seemingly continuing a once infamous tradition. Yesterday NDR German public television had an interview with Fritz Vahrenholt, co-author with Sebastian Lüning of the bestselling book Die kalte Sonne now sweeping through Germany. The NDR piece is dubbed: “Vahrenholt and the ‘CO2 lies’”. The clip first introduces the climate topic [...]

Vahrenholt SPD party comrade foams at the mouth.

End-Of-Worlder Michael Müller Foams At The Mouth Over SPD Comrade Vahrenholt

Vahrenholt SPD party comrade Michael Müller foams at the mouth. I must admit that over the last record-breaking 10 days here at NTZ, it’s been interesting to watch the climate activists and the end-of-the world whackos hyperventilate about Fritz Vahrenholt’s and Sebastian Lüning’s questioning of climate science. So over-the-top have some of the attacks been that [...]

Vahrenholt’s And Lüning’s Skeptic Book Skyrockets To No. 14 On The German Bestseller List!

Vahrenholt’s And Lüning’s Skeptic Book Skyrockets To No. 14 On The German Bestseller List!

**** UPDATE: No. 14 on SPIEGEL Bestseller List! **** This is stunningly phenomenal. According to spokeswoman Julia Strack at Hoffmann & Campe publishing, 20,000 copies have been distributed over the last week and: It will enter the German bestseller list on Monday as number 14.” “Die kalte Sonne” is also the No. 1 seller at publisher [...]

Prestigious Institute Director Eicke Weber Reveals Stunning Lack Of Climate Science Knowledge In Interview

Prestigious Institute Director Eicke Weber Reveals Stunning Lack Of Climate Science Knowledge In Interview

If an “expert” sits down for an interview with a leading media outlet, he should at least know what he’s talking about. Unfortunately this was hardly the case for Georg Feulner of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Eicke Weber, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg, Germany, both [...]

Petra Döll says there's no need for skepticism"

Leftist German TAZ Daily Article On Vahrenholt: “Climate Skeptics Are Like Viruses”

With the book out 6 days, parts of the the German mainstream media and green activists are finding the the whole affair really tough to digest. Some of the reactions have been downright nasty and Medieval. The left wing German online TAZ here has a weekend article called ”Climate Skeptics Are Like Viruses“, which looks at [...]

70% Of Financial Times Deutschland Readers Welcome Vahrenholt’s Skeptical Book

70% Of Financial Times Deutschland Readers Welcome Vahrenholt’s Skeptical Book

It’s been interesting reading some of the reactions from the green, warmist sites. Of course they are all seething in rage and resignation as their unclean movement collapses. None of them up to now have presented any scientific arguments refuting the claims made by Lüning and Vahrenholt. Indeed many forget that geologist and climate-paleontologist Lüning is [...]

Latif: "Half the warming due to natural factors."

Two More Prominent German Climate Scientists (Latif and Marotzke) Break Ranks – Concede Natural Causes!

More big news! If there’s a growing consensus about anything, it is that the man-made climate catastrophe is not going to happen, and that the scientists who believe to the contrary are becoming an ever increasingly obscure, fringe minority. Call them the natural-cause denialists. Maybe many scientists are starting to feel that blaming everything on CO2 and neglecting [...]

Professoe werner Weber calls climate science "dogmatic right from the start...holds no water!" (Photo credit: TU Dortmund)

Consensus-Shattering “Bild” Professor Writes: “Climate Science…Dogmatic From The Start…Holds No Water”!

Professor Werner Weber of the Technical University of Dortmund is the author of that infamous, consensus-shattering article “The CO2 Lies” appearing in Bild newspaper on Monday - also see here – which featured the new skeptic book that is causing an uproar in German climate science, written by Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning. Now he is throwing in a [...]

Vahrenholt’s Spiegel Interview – “I Feel Duped On Climate Change!”

Vahrenholt’s Spiegel Interview – “I Feel Duped On Climate Change!”

Here’s the Spiegel interview with climate maverick Fritz Vahrenholt – in English! “Will reduced solar activity counteract global warming in the coming decades? That is what outgoing German electric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt claims in a new book. In an interview with SPIEGEL, he argues that the official United Nations forecasts on the severity of climate [...]

Number 12 on the overall Amazon.de bestseller list - and still rising.

“Die kalte Sonne” German Skeptic Book Now On Overall Amazon Bestseller List!

The situation for German global warming activists is getting ever more hopeless by the hour. Are we witnesing the death of one of the greatest hoaxes of all time? Now that large, major media outlets are putting the CO2 scam under the spotlight, and revealing the CO2 lies, sales of Prof. Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt and Dr. [...]

Vahrenholt and Lüning co2-author part 2 of "CO2 Lies"

German Media Continue Battering “CO2 Lies”

More major media covering mavericks Vahrenholt’s and Lüning’ new skeptical book. Influential daily DIE WELT jumps in, see below! First, part 2 of the 3-day special series called “The CO2 Lies” appearing in the 16-million circulation German daily Bild is out today. Its title: There Hasn’t Been Any Global Warming In 12 Years!” This part was [...]

Body Blow To German Global Warming Movement! Major Media Outlets Unload On “CO2 Lies!”

Body Blow To German Global Warming Movement! Major Media Outlets Unload On “CO2 Lies!”

Page 2 story in Bild today! The first of a series. “THE CO2 LIES … pure fear-mongering … should we blindly trust the experts?” That’s what Germany’s leading daily Bild (see photo) wrote in its print and online editions today, on the very day that renowned publisher Hoffmann & Campe officially released a skeptic book – [...]

Vahrenholt and Lüning forcing unwelcome climate debate in Germany

Der Spiegel Features “The Climate Rebel” Fritz Vahrenholt…Germany’s Climate Debate Starts To Rock!

Unless the power grid collapses, the printing presses will continue churning out tens of thousands of copies of the latest edition of DER SPIEGEL – well into the night so that they’ll be fresh for the newsstands tomorrow. UPDATE: SPIEGEL reveals more Tomorrow’s edition features a story on environment expert Prof. Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, author of [...]