Fritz Vahrenholt
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Fritz Vahrenholt is a prominent climate skeptic in Germany and claims to be an 'environmentalist'
Vahrenholt has had a varied career in industry and politics - a past member of the Board of Director Deutsche Shell AG. Germany's center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) made him environment minister for Hamburg where he incurred the wrath of the environmental lobby by building a waste incineration plant, earning him the nickname "Feuerfritze" (Fire Fritz)[1]
Currently Vahrenholt holds a senior role at RWE Innogy a renewables firm and part of energy conglomerate RWE.
He was a reviewer if the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy (SRREN) 2011. [2]
Vahrenholt is the author of Die Kalte Sonne - The Cold Sun (with Sebastian Lüning). He delivered the 2012 lecture of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. He also spoke at the climate skeptic EIKE conference.
External Articles
- Telegraph 18 Jun 2012 Global warming: second thoughts of an environmentalist By Fritz Vahrenholt
- Irish Independent I used to believe that we were to blame for global warming, but now I’m not so sure 20th June 2012
- DeSmogBlog profile http://www.desmogblog.com/fritz-vahrenholt#s2
- Curriculum Vitae on RWE Innogy website http://www.rwe.com/web/cms/en/86244/rwe-innogy/company/management/prof-dr-fritz-vahrenholt/
- Skeptical Science website Fritz Vahrenholt - Duped on Climate Change February 2012
