Pierre Gosselin writes:
Amazon is now showing that Fritz Vahrenholt’s and Sebastian Lüning’s controversial book Die kalte Sonne (The cold sun), released in German last year, is now coming out worldwide in English.
The title of the English version: The Neglected Sun, and the publisher is Stacey International in London.
Their book created quite a stir in Europe, especially in Germany. The warmist establishment pretty much had seizures over it.
Fritz Vahrenholt, chemistry professor, is also the author of the 1986 book “Seveso ist überall” (Seveso is everywhere), a book on the deadly risks of chemical pollution. That book made him one of the fathers of Germany’s modern environmental movement. Until just a couple of years ago Vahrenholt was a big believer in anthropogenic global warming, and accepted the IPCC gloomy reports as the final word on the subject – until one day he began taking a closer look at the real data. He couldn’t believe some of the shenanigans going on in the science, and so together with geologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning, he co-authored Die kalte Sonne.
Despite a massive orchestrated campaign by environmental activists against Die kalte Sonne, it soared to No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list. That success has obviously served as the springboard to the English edition. Now it’s going to be hitting bookshelves worldwide.
According to Amazon, the book will be available on September 1 and it can already be pre-ordered. Interestingly its release is right before the IPCC’s 5th assessment report. Talk about timing. The Neglected Sun can be pre-ordered at any bookshop.
Here are some reviews on the original “Die kalte Sonne” version from German media outlets:
“Author’s high profile assures there’s going to be a debate”.
– Jochen Marotzke, Director, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg (Spiegel 06/2012, p-134)
Book’s assertions “challenge the results of climate science and the IPCC.”
– Süddeutsche Zeitung, 13 September 2012,
“With his book, the departing CEO of RWE Innogy, Fritz Vahrenholt, has rekindled the climate debate in Germany.”
– Cicero, 27 February 2012,
“A book co-authored by environmental activist and RWE manager Fritz Vahrenholt revitalizes the debate: ‘Die kalte Sonne’ will bring us cooling.”
– Die Presse Österreich, 10 February 2012
“Commotion over Fritz Vahrenholt’s clams on climate change. But our society needs to accept maverick thinkers. The head is round so that we can think in all directions. In Germany blockheads govern all too often.”
– Hamburger Abendblatt, 20 February 2012
“New fracas erupts in the climate crusade. … A book attacks international climate science. … ‘Die kalte Sonne‘ has stormed the bestseller lists.“
– Bild der Wissenschaft, 07/2012
“This book is a must for those who cherish the value of scientific research.”
– getabstract, 2012
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Carbon inquisition 0, Good Guys 1
If it really upsets the serial alarmists, then it must be right.
I’ll certainly be pre-ordering my copy.
Splendid! Christmas presents for all my CAGW pals. They will be so pleased.
Typo
“Commotion over Fritz Vahrenholt’s clams on climate change. But our society needs to accept maverick thinkers. The head is round so that we can think in all directions. In Germany blockheads govern all too often.”
Or is it? Hehe.
That’s gonna leave a mark!
I hope Josh sees that one. It is just begging for an illustration.
Pre-order going in!
I don’t see it on Amazon yet, for purchase or pre-order. But will order as soon as it shows on Amazon’s site. I’d love to donate a few to the local high school library.
A must read me thinks.
[Just read Rupert Darwell’s “The Age of Global Warming: A History” – it is excellent.]
also see this open discussion at Our Changing
This original discussion
The Greens will pay for the publicity campaign 😉
Eli Rabett says:
July 14, 2013 at 3:50 pm
You.
Must.
Be.
Joking.
Eli Rabett says:
July 14, 2013 at 3:51 pm
You.
Must.
Still.
Be.
Joking.
Fritz will be up to his ears in clams.
Since when does good news sell, or attract funding ?
Sigh.
I can hardly wait…
A must order. Al Gored will be so pleased!
ColdinOz, just click on the link at the top.
I wonder what prompted Fritz to begin taking a closer look at the data? Perhaps something didn’t smell quite right, and once he looked, scientific impulse took over. I can just imagine the double-takes and disbelief at first, at what he was seeing.
Eli Rabett says:
July 14, 2013 at 3:51 pm
This original discussion
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Excerpt from your link:
“This entry was posted on June 11, 2012 at 16:24 and is filed under English, Skeptics, Climate science.”
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49 comments in a year+, and the thread devolved into arguments about smoking.
Why would you link it ?
Oddly enough, the real debate on climate change is BETWEEN skeptics — and it is over what does cause most climate change. There is the solar camp that favors external forcing. Vahrenholt subscribes to this viewpoint. Then there is the terrestrial camp that suggests that the dominant mechanism is unforced chaotic changes by the earth itself.
Of course the alarmists have little interest in learning about this basic question in climate science, being tied to their sinking anthropogenic cause.
Bruce Cobb, exactly as happened to me, and I suspect most skeptics.
First it was “self-evident”, and skeptics were nut jobs.
Then it was, hmmm… maybe this and that detail are wrong.
Now it’s… not even close. CO2 DOES NOT DRIVE CLIMATE. It never has, it never will, and those who continue to believe it does don’t understand even the most basic realities. Ironically, the least scientific people in the world are getting away with labeling Science people as “anti-science”.
There’s no cure for stupid.
Thanks, Pierre.
I hope Fritz Vahrenholt’s “The Neglected Sun” gets the attention it deserves in the USA too.
I have just pre-ordered 5 copies. I want to make sure this gets spread around. I did the same with “The Chilling Stars”.
NucEngineer says:
July 14, 2013 at 4:31 pm
I have just pre-ordered 5 copies. I want to make sure this gets spread around. I did the same with “The Chilling Stars”.
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Not sure, but I think local libraries put new releases front and center.
The Germans are starting to get it.
From Der Spieigl
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/wind-energy-encounters-problems-and-resistance-in-germany-a-910816.html