Karsten Brandt (entrepreneur)
Karsten Brandt (born May 25, 1973 in Bonn ) is a German entrepreneur and book author. He is the founder and managing director of Donnerwetter.de GmbH.
Life
Brandt founded the Brandt Wetter weather service while still at school in 1991 . After the Abitur at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium Bonn (1992) he called www.donnerwetter.de to life, claims to be one of the first private weather service sites in Germany. After studying business administration at the University of Hagen (graduated as Diplom-Kaufmann , 2001) as well as the history , politics and economics (graduating as Master , 2004) received his PhD Karsten Brandt, 2007 at the University of Duisburg-Essen for Dr. rer. nat. In his doctorate, Brandt dealt with the economic evaluation of meteorological processes.
In his writings, Brandt criticizes the scientific consensus on global warming and, as a result, what he believes is a lack of climate policy. In particular, he advocates the thesis that the importance of CO 2 compared to other climate factors , such as ocean currents or sunspots , is generally overestimated.
Brandt has also written travel literature and popular science literature on the subject of weather and the regional history of the Siebengebirge .
Karsten Brandt is also present in various media: Mondays to Fridays several times a day as "Radio Bonn / Rhein-Sieg-Wettermann" , also on Radio Eins and NDR 2 . He also appears irregularly on the TV broadcaster Phoenix as an expert on the topics of weather and climate.
Fonts (selection)
- Climate policy. Why we have to act differently than the climate lobby wants us to believe . Bouvier , Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-416-03138-7 .
- Greenhouse Germany. Climate change in Germany and its effects . Bouvier, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03192-9 .
- The economic evaluation of the urban climate using the example of the city of Essen . Westarp Sciences, Hohenwarsleben 2007, ISBN 978-3-89432-111-6 .
- Greenhouse Rhineland. Climate change in the Rhineland and its effects . Bouvier, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03166-0 .
- Ghost clouds over Germany . Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, Halle 2006, ISBN 978-3-86634-218-7 .
Web links
- Literature by Karsten Brandt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karsten Brandt's private website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint and provider identification. In: donnerwetter.de. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Doctoral thesis on the economic benefits of the urban climate - warm summer evening for sale. March 13, 2007, accessed September 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Experts: "Forecasts are not worth the paper they are printed on". In: derStandard.at . November 19, 2010, accessed February 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Donnerwetter.de. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
- ↑ phoenix on YouTube. April 23, 2020, accessed June 25, 2020 .
- ↑ phoenix on YouTube. December 5, 2019, accessed June 25, 2020 .
- ↑ phoenix on YouTube. July 4, 2019, accessed June 25, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brandt, Karsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |