The Neglected Sun: Why the Sun Precludes Climate Catastrophe - Softcover

Fritz Vahrenholt; Sebastian Luning

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934791547 ISBN 13: 9781934791547

Publisher: The Heartland Institute, 2015

Synopsis

The effect of the sun's activity on climate change has been either scarcely known or overlooked. In this momentous book - first published in German as Die kalte Sonne in 2012 - Professor Fritz Vahrenholt and Dr. Sebastian Lüning demonstrate that the critical cause of global temperature change has been, and continues to be, the sun's activity. Vahrenholt and Lüning reveal that four concurrent solar cycles master Earth's temperature - a climate reality upon which man's carbon emissions bear little significance. The sun's present cooling phase, precisely monitored in this work, renders impossible the catastrophic prospects put forward by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the alarmist agenda dominant in contemporary Western politics.

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About the Author

Professor Fritz Vahrenholt is a German scientist, environmentalist, politician, and industrialist. With his initial doctorate in chemistry, Vahrenholt has researched at the Max Planck Institute for Carbon Research at Mühleim. A former senator and deputy environmental minister for Hamburg, he has served on the Sustainable Advisory Board successively for Chancellors Gerhard Schroeder and Angela Merkel.

Dr. habil. Sebastian Lüning holds a doctorate in geology and paleontology. For twenty years he has worked on the refiguring of natural ecological changes in geology. In 2005 2006 he was a visiting professor at the University of Vienna. Since 2007 he has worked as an Africa expert in the oil and gas industry. A reviewer for major geoscience journals, Lüning has been a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 1991.

Review

The Neglected Sun by Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Luning is a significant book, which I highly recommend. It reviews the research on and explains the role of the Sun as both a direct modulator and a pacemaker for the Earth s climate and weather. These two authors have also cleverly solicited contributions from four other active scientists Professors Nir Shaviv, Nicola Scafetta, Henrik Svensmark and Werner Weber to ensure a fully comprehensive coverage of the science related to climate change.

After a quarter of a century of scientific research on the Sun-Earth connection, most books in this area fail to hold my intellectual attention for any length of time. This book is a welcomed exception. This book cuts through the usual scientific jargon and is a refreshing reading alternative. The authors provide a sharp contrast to the conclusions reached by the many volumes of U.N. reports that considered the Sun as a mere bit-player in the global warming debate.

The U.N. insists that no matter what happens to the Sun in terms of its radiative and charged-particle outputs, the future will certainly trend warm. The authors and contributors to The Neglected Sun, by contrast, after investing significant amount of capital to amass the empirical evidence and understanding from the data, ask us to consider the objective reasoning for the possibility of a future cold climate in the near-term.

What shall we do? Nothing, yet, but I suggest a very important, open-minded first step would be to study this book. The Neglected Sun is a very easy read and should be accessible to any fair-minded reader who wants a more open discussion of the science.

--Willie Soon, Ph.D., Astrophysicist and Geoscientist

Vahrenholt's high profile assures there's going to be a debate. --Jochen Marotzke, Director, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

The argument of Vahrenholt and Lüning makes sense. --Chancellor Helmut Schmidt

About this edition

• Publisher: The Heartland Institute
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1934791547
• ISBN 13: 9781934791547
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 412