Fritz Vahrenholt, Der Spiegel: I Feel Duped on Climate Change... A Review

Examining Fritz Vahrenholt's 
answers in his Der Spiegel's interview


'I Feel Duped on Climate Change'
 

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The outgoing German electric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt recently published a book "Die Kalte Sonne" (The Cold Sun) that put him at the top of the media circuit for a while.


I was given Vahrenholt’s interview with Der Spiegel {Germany’s premier news magazine} as a supposed eye opener.  Instead I found a man way too convinced of his own infallibility, who described the science with appalling deceitfulness.  Olaf Stampf and Gerald Traufetter do a nice job of interviewing and getting Vahrenholt to open up.  Still answer by answer he says things I know are blatantly false.  Then Vahrenholt’s constant disingenuous complaints about the IPCC went so over the top, they demanded a rebuttal. 

By the end of it I was angry enough to start all over again, to consider and research Vahrenholt’s answers.  My intention was to document his nonsense answer by answer.
After many delays and other projects I’ve fairly finished it, 
though I have the feeling I'll be working on it for a while yet.
Review of Fritz Vahrenholt A Denialist In Action. 



I do warn you, it's a long one (23 questions), specifically intended for the student of the Art of Denial.




Der Speigel’s article, published February 8, 2012, includes a hefty six hundred word introduction to this “practiced provocateur” that makes for a good read: 
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,813814,00.html

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Examining  Fritz Vahrenholt replies to Der Spiegel interviewers {Stampf and Traufetter}: 

'I Feel Duped on Climate Change'

Vahrenholt, Der Spiegel: "I Feel Duped" Interview, #6 examined

Dr. Vahrenholt as featured at WattsUpWithThat on February 13, 2012, personally introduced by Anthony Watts:
"German skeptics Lüning and Vahrenholt respond to criticism"

I myself am again astounded at the frauds Anthony Watts expects us to believe in.  Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt the latest practiced provocateur joining Anthony's parade is a stellar example of the shameless deception these folks peddle.

As it happens I've been taking a closer look at another interview 

Vahrenholt's gave during his media-blitz.  

This interview was printed in the February 8th issue of the German magazine Der Spiegel.  And I want to examine his answers.  For starters:
 

Vahrenholt . . . ‘I Feel Duped on Climate Change’

Question #6: of Research, Models and Earth is Cooling
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#6)  DER SPIEGEL: You make concrete statements on how much human activity contributes to climatic events and how much of a role natural factors play. Why don’t you publish your prognoses in a professional journal?

Dr. Vahrenholt: Because I don’t engage in my own climate research. Besides, I don’t have a supercomputer in my basement. For the most part, my co-author, geologist Sebastian Lüning, and I merely summarize what scientists have published in professional journals—just as the IPCC does. The book is also a platform for scientists who apply good arguments in diverging from the views of the IPCC. The established climate models have failed across the board because they cannot cogently explain the absence of warming.

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Vahrenholt, exemplifies