Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Report on the Climate Change Seminar of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Gummersbach, Germany

Report on the Climate Change Seminar of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Gummersbach, Germany EE 16-3-Peiser1_p2.qxd 30-6-05 9:53 am Page 681 REPORT ON THE CLIMATE CHANGE SEMINAR OF THE FRIEDRICH NAUMANN FOUNDATION, GUMMERSBACH, GERMANY Bernd Ströher and Benny Peiser This is a brief report about an interesting seminar on climatic change and the Kyoto Protocol that was held at the Theodor Heuss Academy in Gummersbach (near Bonn) in February. It was a noteworthy change, as some of Germany’s top climatologists made presentations at a meeting that included a number of more ‘sceptical’ speakers. The conference (“Kyoto – Climatic Predictions: Meaningfulness of the models and strategies for action”) was organised by the liberal Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung together with the Society for the Freedom of Science (Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft). The list of speakers included top scientists and researchers and was opened by Michael Miersch, Germany’s leading environmental journalist and a well-known advocate of “eco-optimism”. There were presentations by Prof. Dennis Bray (GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht), Prof. Hans von Storch (GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht), Prof. Mangini (Academy of Science, University of Heidelberg) Prof. Nico Stehr (Zeppelin University), Prof. Fabian (Technical University Munich) Prof. Gerlich (Technical University Braunschweig) and Professor Julian Morris (University of Buckingham). Preparation for the conference took more than a year and included many difficulties. Some of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Energy & Environment SAGE

Report on the Climate Change Seminar of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Gummersbach, Germany

Ströher, Bernd; Peiser, Benny
Energy & Environment , Volume 16 (3-4): 3 – Jul 1, 2005
Download PDF
3 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/sage/report-on-the-climate-change-seminar-of-the-friedrich-naumann-3aMew9RMRJ
Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 2005 SAGE Publications
ISSN
0958-305X
eISSN
2048-4070
DOI
10.1260/0958305054672268
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

EE 16-3-Peiser1_p2.qxd 30-6-05 9:53 am Page 681 REPORT ON THE CLIMATE CHANGE SEMINAR OF THE FRIEDRICH NAUMANN FOUNDATION, GUMMERSBACH, GERMANY Bernd Ströher and Benny Peiser This is a brief report about an interesting seminar on climatic change and the Kyoto Protocol that was held at the Theodor Heuss Academy in Gummersbach (near Bonn) in February. It was a noteworthy change, as some of Germany’s top climatologists made presentations at a meeting that included a number of more ‘sceptical’ speakers. The conference (“Kyoto – Climatic Predictions: Meaningfulness of the models and strategies for action”) was organised by the liberal Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung together with the Society for the Freedom of Science (Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft). The list of speakers included top scientists and researchers and was opened by Michael Miersch, Germany’s leading environmental journalist and a well-known advocate of “eco-optimism”. There were presentations by Prof. Dennis Bray (GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht), Prof. Hans von Storch (GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht), Prof. Mangini (Academy of Science, University of Heidelberg) Prof. Nico Stehr (Zeppelin University), Prof. Fabian (Technical University Munich) Prof. Gerlich (Technical University Braunschweig) and Professor Julian Morris (University of Buckingham). Preparation for the conference took more than a year and included many difficulties. Some of

Journal

Energy & Environment – SAGE

Published: Jul 1, 2005

There are no references for this article.