Fritz Vahrenholt

Fritz Vahrenholt is a prominent climate skeptic in Germany and claims to be an 'environmentalist'

Vahrenholt has had a varied career in industry and politics - a past member of the Board of Director Deutsche Shell AG. Germany's center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) made him environment minister for Hamburg where he incurred the wrath of the environmental lobby by building a waste incineration plant, earning him the nickname "Feuerfritze" (Fire Fritz)

Currently Vahrenholt holds a senior role at RWE Innogy a renewables firm and part of energy conglomerate RWE.

He was a reviewer if the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy (SRREN) 2011.

Vahrenholt is the author of Die Kalte Sonne - The Cold Sun (with Sebastian Lüning). He delivered the 2012 lecture of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. He also spoke at the climate skeptic EIKE conference.

External Articles

 * Telegraph 18 Jun 2012 Global warming: second thoughts of an environmentalist By Fritz Vahrenholt
 * Irish Independent I used to believe that we were to blame for global warming, but now I’m not so sure 20th June 2012
 * DeSmogBlog profile http://www.desmogblog.com/fritz-vahrenholt#s2
 * Curriculum Vitae on RWE Innogy website http://www.rwe.com/web/cms/en/86244/rwe-innogy/company/management/prof-dr-fritz-vahrenholt/
 * Skeptical Science website Fritz Vahrenholt - Duped on Climate Change February 2012

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Global Warming Policy Foundation
 * Skeptical and Industrial IPCC Contributors
 * RWE npower
 * RWE