Michael Limburg

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Michael Limburg (* 1940 in Berlin ) is a German author and politician ( AfD ) who became known for his denial of man-made global warming . He is vice-president of the registered association European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE), an organization that presents itself as an institute that denies man-made climate change .

Life

Limburg studied electrical engineering with a degree in engineering and initially worked as a developer of electronics for televisions, later as a manager. After retiring in 2001, he began to work on the climate issue. He was inspired by Fred Singer , an industry-oriented scientist who, among other things, denies the health dangers of tobacco smoking and the existence of climate change and is one of the world's loudest climate deniers. After reading up on the subject, Limburg began to disseminate his theses, initially under a pseudonym on the Internet, later in books. After a while he received some media attention because of his theses. In 2007, he and like-minded people founded the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE), an association for climate denial, which had around 50 members in 2017 and is considered to be "the most important voice of German climate deniers ".

In 2010/11, Limburg attempted to do a doctorate at EIKE with a dissertation on the history of temperature measurement with the help of the geographer Werner Kirstein at the University of Leipzig, according to EIKE . The dissertation was rated as insufficient by two reviewers (review can be viewed under references in), whereupon Limburg accused the reviewers of incompetence, bias and political reasons for their rejection. In a court settlement, Limburg claims that the dissertation was classified as not submitted so that he could submit it elsewhere. Another university also refused to open the doctoral procedure.

Memberships

Limburg is a member of the AfD . He is a member of the party's "Federal Energy Policy Committee" and worked on the party program, whereupon the AfD adopted large parts of its positions on climate change in its party program. According to a fact check by the climate platform klimafakten.de, this basic program contains "almost no statement that is compatible with the state of research on climate and climate change", but is particularly noticeable due to the many "blatantly false and misleading statements". Limburg stood at 10th place on the Brandenburg state list for the AfD in the 2017 federal election . In 2018 Limburg was also invited by the AfD parliamentary group of the Brandenburg state parliament to testify as an "expert" before the state parliament. He works part-time in the parliamentary office of Karsten Hilse (AfD), who has already been called the “most radical denier of man-made climate change” in the Bundestag.

Limburg is also a member of the Policy Advisory Board of the International Climate Science Coalition .

Positions

Limburg denies the current man-made climate change and denies that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas . Among other things, he said that there was no evidence "that the man-made CO 2 in some mysterious way warms the temperature of the atmosphere of this planet". Instead, carbon dioxide is very important for plants, so CO 2 emissions should not be prevented, but promoted. People who emit CO 2 should receive a reward. In his lecture at the EIKE conference 2019, he expressed his hope that his speech had "increased concerns about the greenhouse effect " among the audience .

Climate researchers accuse Limburg of "spreading panic" and deceiving politicians. The subject of climate presupposes “scientific knowledge” which most politicians do not have. These are primarily driven by “ignorance and opportunism”.

He denies the scientific consensus on man-made climate change. Not 97% of the researchers would recognize man-made climate change as a fact, but only 0.3%. The studies on scientific consensus are all wrong, and there is no evidence of man-made climate change. There are thousands of climate researchers who disagree and oppose the “ IPCC dictatorship”, but do not have a public say. Examples include a. Richard Lindzen , Roy Spencer and Willie Soon . In fact, of the more than 2,500 IPCC scientists, only a few dozen researchers are promoting "the hypothesis of man-made climate change", the rest have let themselves be undermined.

Limburg considers climate protection “an absurd idea” and rejects the energy transition and the promotion of renewable energies . He describes the energy mix that existed before the start of the energy transition as his “desired electricity mix”. He advocates the use of coal as an energy carrier and expressed the claim that coal as an energy carrier is "dirty", serves to "defame a domestic energy carrier". In modern coal-fired power plants you can "almost eat from the floor". He also advocates the use of nuclear energy and advocates reversing the nuclear phase-out .

Works

  • Not all electricity is the same, TvR Medienverlag , Jena, 2015
  • Climate hysteria - what is it? TvR Medienverlag, Jena, 2009/2012
  • The digital Gutenberg, Springer-Verlag , Berlin, 1997
  • Gutenberg goes digital, Blueprint, London - Tokyo - Melbourne - Madras, 1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brandenburg election results, 2017 Bundestag election, p. 20
  2. ↑ a b c d e f This man has doubts about climate change - and is very successful with it . In: Bento , March 18, 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b collecting tank for climate skeptics . In: taz , September 27, 2013. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b article by Fred F. Mueller: Greenhouses of Climate Alarmism - Which Tricks German Universities Use to Hold Down Dissenting Opinions . EIKE website (An interview with EIKE Vice President Michael Limburg conducted by Fred. F. Mueller). April 3, 2016. Accessed on November 27, 2019 (also available at [1] ).
  5. ↑ Susanne Götze , Annika Joeres : coal, coal, coal . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 7, 2018. Accessed September 22, 2019.
  6. ↑ The network of climate deniers . In: Tagesspiegel , February 26, 2019. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  7. ↑ What does the AfD say about climate change? What are other parties saying? And what is the state of science? . In: klimafakten.de , accessed on September 22, 2019.
  8. ↑ a b Patrick Bauer, Till Krause, Katharina Kropshofer, Katrin Langhans and Lorenz Wagner: The sham business. Attack on science . In: SZ-Magazin , July 20, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
  9. ↑ Climate deniers at the climate conference. Karsten Hilse doesn't believe a word . In: taz , December 14, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  10. ↑ Who we are . International Climate Science Coalition website . Retrieved December 24, 2019.
  11. ↑ The ennobling of the climate deniers . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , June 21, 2015. Accessed December 20, 2019.
  12. ↑ Susanne Götze , Annika Joeres : The rights and the climate . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 15, 2020. Retrieved January 27, 2020.
  13. ↑ Trouble in the Bundestag: AfD invites climate deniers as experts . In: Neue Presse , October 16, 2019. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Limburg, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graduate engineer, author and politician (AfD)
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin