Josh 2012 Annual GWPF Lecture - Cartoon notes by Josh
The 2012 Annual GWPF Lecture was given by Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt. Here is what the GWPF say about him:
Fritz Vahrenholt is one of the fathers of Germany's environmental movement. He studied chemistry and started his professional career in the 1970s at Germany's Federal Environmental Protection Agency in Berlin and the Ministry for the Environment in the state of Hesse. In 1990, his party, the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), chose him as environment senator in the city-state of Hamburg. In 1998, he became a member of the Board of Directors of Deutsche Shell AG with responsibility for renewable energy. In 2001 he founded the wind energy company REpower and is now director of RWE's renewable energy division Innogy, one of Europe's largest renewable energy companies. His book, The Cold Sun. Why the climate catastrophe will not happen, was published earlier this year. In August, he will take over as the executive director of the German Wildlife Foundation.
Here are the cartoon notes.
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Reader Comments (15)
Pure magic. Thanks again Josh
Take-home message: CAGW-driven energy policies are _not_ sustainable.
This should be plastered all over Rio.
Brilliant - yet again - many thanks Josh
Excellent, Josh, Thanks - some much needed humour!
Wonderful light touch Josh
"the German Wildlife Foundation"
Who are presumably a bit more open-minded than the WWF?
Kudos to Josh. Again.
... an exam season pedanticism special for you, Josh... CO2 is linear (as shown here) - your CO2 looks rather like a water molecule!
Jun 14, 2012 at 1:43 PM | Jeremy Harvey
Jeremy. Don't you know that global warming has caused the CO2 molecule to bend?
I was at the lecture and Josh has brilliantly summarised it.
Fritz Vahrenholt covered the science: he believes that we can live with the "no water-vapour feedback" sensitivity to CO2 doubling of 1.1 C and that the stasis in temperatures is linked to declining solar activity (as evidenced by sunspots) which gives us time to find solutions. He covered the engineering: pumped storage is the most economic way of storing energy but if Germany is to produce 80% of its energy from renewables it will need a pumped storage capacity equal to Lake Constance (=30 Lake Windermeres). He covered the politics: environmental policy is driven by angst.
The GWPF are planning to put a video of the talk on their website next week.
Jeremy, brilliant - you learned me something. Will amend.
@Ron, I was there too.
Josh is a genius!
Josh, its a pleasure. The cartoon was great, by the way - I could almost imagine the talk!
"... an exam season pedanticism special for you, Josh... CO2 is linear (as shown here) - your CO2 looks rather like a water molecule!" --Jeremy Harvey
Which explains why water is a more powerful greenhouse gas.
"Jeremy. Don't you know that global warming has caused the CO2 molecule to bend?" --Jimmy Haigh
MMGW-based government will result in all of us getting bent.
Josh,
I will have to read this a few more times.
Then I will tell you how really wonderful it is!
Brilliant, Josh. I don't know how you managed to capture it so well and work at such speed!
Nic