Helga Kromp-Kolb

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Helga Kromp-Kolb (born November 14, 1948 in Vienna ) is an Austrian meteorologist and climate researcher .

Life

She studied meteorology at the University of Vienna and received her doctorate in 1971. She worked as a research assistant at the University of Vienna and qualified as a professor in 1982 in the special field of environmental meteorology . At the ZAMG she worked in a managerial capacity before as an associate professor at San Jose State University worked in California. Until 1995 she worked as a lecturer at the University of Vienna and headed the Environmental Meteorology Department from 1986 to 1995. In 1995 she became a full professor at the Institute for Meteorology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. She still holds lectures at the University of Vienna.

Kromp-Kolb became known for her research work and her commitment to global climate change . She attracted attention in an interview with the Kronen Zeitung in 2019 , in which she replied to the question of whether it was still allowed to fly with a haunting comparison:

“You should think twice about whether it is really necessary. Because just like we asked our parents: What was it like under National Socialism? What did you know What have you done? Our children and grandchildren will also ask us one day: How was it with the climate? What did you know What have you done? If I then answer: I still flew to London on a shopping spree, that wouldn't be a nice answer. "

- Helga Kromp-Kolb

Helga Kromp-Kolb is the daughter of the educator and later diplomat Fritz Kolb and the educator Martha Grandl. She is married to the physicist and risk researcher Wolfgang Kromp , who brought two sons and a daughter from his first marriage into the family.

Awards

Works

  • Gregor Hagedorn , Peter Kalmus, Michael Mann, Sara Vicca, Joke Van den Berge, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele , Dominique Bourg, Jan Rotmans, Roope Kaaronen, Stefan Rahmstorf , Helga Kromp-Kolb, Gottfried Kirchengast , Reto Knutti, Sonia I. Seneviratne , Philippe Thalmann, Raven Cretney, Alison Green, Kevin Anderson, Martin Hedberg, Douglas Nilsson, Amita Kuttner, Katharine Hayhoe: Concerns of young protesters are justified. In: Science . Vol 364, Vol 364, 2019, doi : 10.1126 / science.aax3807 .
  • Helga Kromp-Kolb and Herbert Formayer: Plus two degrees: Why we should warm up to saving the world. Molden Verlag , October 2018, ISBN 978-3222150227
  • Helga Kolb and Herbert Formayer: Black Book Climate Change. How much time do we have left? Ecowin Verlag , March 2005, ISBN 3-902404-14-0
  • Helga Kolb, Kurt Kratena , Michael Lohmeyer and Albert E. Hackl: No Climate for Austrian Climate Policy? Forum Science & Environment, 2002, ISBN 3-902023-05-8
  • Dennis Meadows , Erich Valentin, Siegfried Sellitsch and Helga Kolb: Have we slept for 30 years? To update the Limits to Growth. Protext, April 2007, ISBN 3-929118-64-5
  • Paul Brunner, Anton Smolak, Paul Fiala and Helga Kolb: Resources: Environmental Conference October 2006. Facultas wuv Universitätsverlag, December 2007, ISBN 3-7089-0029-4
  • Helga and Andreas Molin (eds.): Nuclear energy, climate protection and sustainability. An argumentation of the forum for atomic questions . BMLFUW, Vienna 2007.
  • Contribution to Attac (Ed.): We are building Europe anew: Who is building with us? Residenz Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-3129-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Univ.Prof. Helga Kromp-Kolb is "Researcher of the Year 2005" (PDF; 1.2 MB) Boku Research Newsletter March 2006, accessed on March 14, 2011
  2. ↑ https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000105337541/klimaforscherin-loest-mit-drastischem-vergleich-neue-debatte-ueber-das-fliegen
  3. ↑ "Scientist of the Year 2005": Helga Kromp-Kolb in the archive of the online newspaper of the University of Vienna on January 24, 2006, accessed on March 9, 2012
  4. ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/2006/0427/018.html

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personal data
SURNAME Kromp-Kolb, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolb, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria