Hartmut Graßl
Hartmut Graßl (born March 18, 1940 in Salzberg , today Berchtesgaden ) is a German climate researcher .
Life
Graßl grew up in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden . He studied physics and meteorology in Munich. He took part in trips with the research vessel Meteor on the Atlantic Ocean and to the Greenland Ice Sheet. He then received his doctorate in 1970 in Munich with a dissertation on the determination of the size distribution of cloud elements from spectral transmission measurements. The next stops were the Meteorological Institute in Mainz and a GATE expedition. In 1976 he made his way to Hamburg, where he completed his habilitation in 1978 on the subject of "Radiation transmission in cloudy atmospheres and in clouds". He was appointed professor in Kiel in 1981.
In 1984 he became director of the Institute for Physics at the GKSS research center near Hamburg.
In 1988 Graßl returned to Hamburg as a professor at the University of Hamburg and as a director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI). He held these offices with interruptions until his retirement in 2005. From the beginning to the middle of the 1990s he was a member of the Enquête Commissions “Prevention for the Protection of the Earth's Atmosphere” and “Protection of the Earth's Atmosphere” of the German Bundestag . He is also the editor of the scientific journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology .
Graßl warned of global warming as early as the 1980s . From 1994 to 1999 Graßl was Director of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva . During his membership in the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) he promoted an understanding of the complex interdependencies of global environmental and development problems. Graßl was member and chairman of the WBGU from 1992–1993 and again from 2000–2004.
He also made a name for himself in connection with the Kyoto Protocol and is an advisory board member of the Ecological-Social Market Economy Forum and a member of the NABU Board of Trustees. Since November 2015 he has been Chairman of the Board of the Association of German Scientists . He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Munich Re Foundation and the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg . Together with Claudia Kemfert , Michael Müller , Andreas Knie and Gero Lücking, he writes articles on climate research and the energy transition as co-editor of the online magazine Klimareporter .
Awards and honors
- Tyler Prize
- University medal in silver from the University of Hamburg
- Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Geosciences at the Free University of Berlin
- 1971: Prize of the German Meteorological Society
- 1991: Max Planck Research Award (together with Yuri Timofeyev )
- 1995: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1995: Full member of the Academia Europaea
- 1998: German Environment Prize
- 2002: Large Federal Cross of Merit
- 2007: Bavarian State Medal for Services to Environment and Health
- 2010: Reinhard Süring plaque from the German Meteorological Society
Publications (selection)
- with Reiner Klingholz : We climate makers. Ways out of the global greenhouse. Verlag S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-10-028605-7 .
- Peter Frieß, Andreas Fickers (eds.): Helmut Schmidt and Hartmut Graßl talk about the obligation of scientists towards society and the obligation of politicians to accept scientific knowledge. (= Technology Dialog. Issue 3). Deutsches Museum , Bonn 1995, OCLC 907718871 .
- Weather change. Vision: global climate protection. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-593-36035-7 .
- What is true? Climate change: the most important answers. Herder, Freiburg a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-05899-8 .
- with Dieter Deiseroth (Ed.): Whistleblower revelations. Doc. On the awarding of the Whistleblower Prizes 2015. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag , 2016, ISBN 978-3-8305-3641-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hartmut Graßl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography at verkehr-macht-klima.de
- Current texts by H. Graßl at klimareporter.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Committees of the Association of German Scientists.
- ↑ Climate reporter, editor , accessed November 16, 2018.
- ↑ Directory of members: Hartmut Grassl. Academia Europaea, accessed June 26, 2017 .
- ↑ ISBN 3-924183-92-9 awarded several times.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Graßl, Hartmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German climate researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzberg , Bavaria |