Michael Limburg

Credentials

Dipl. Ing. (Engineering degree). [1]

Background

Michael Limburg is the Vice President [1] and Deputy Press-speaker for the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) [2]. In his position he regularly attends EIKE's International Conferences on Climate and Energy, and regularly speaks with the media.

Stance on Climate Change

"At best, this conference [the climate conference in Copenhagen] will decide nothing. For there is no climate problem. Even if it actually [...] is a warming caused by humans - which I doubt - [it] is not bad at all. A warmer climate is better for humanity [than] a colder [one]. We know from our own history: In warm periods there was abundance [while] in cold phases [people] starved [...]" [2]

Key Quotes

"Eventually all these costs [for renewable energy] add up and in the end they get passed along to the consumer. Under the bottom line, consumers have to pay more and more, and for a lower and lower quality supply." [3]

Key Deeds

November 30 - December 1, 2012

Michael Limburg was a speaker (PDF) [3] at the Eighth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-8)/Fifth International Conference on Climate and Energy (ICCE-5) sponsored by both the Heartland Institute [4] and the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) [2]. Limburg presented on a panel with James Taylor of the Heartland Institute to discuss the supposed "(Un)-Intended Consequences of Today's Environmental Policies." [4]

December 3, 2010

Limburg was a speaker [5] at EIKE's 3rd International Energy and Climate Conference in Berlin. His speech was titled "'Saving the Climate & Energy Concept – Does it Fit?" [5]

December 4, 2009

Limburg attended and spoke at the Second International Climate Conference in Berlin -- a joint effort of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) [2], the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) [6], The Liberal Institute of the Foundation for Freedom [7], the Institute for Enterprise (IUF) [8], and the Confederation of Freedom Science [9]. In an interview for the conference, Limburg describes man-made climate change as "a big lie." [6]

March 2 - 4, 2008

Limburg was an endorser of Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change [10], a document presented at the Heartland Institute [4]'s 2008 International Conference on Climate Change. The document disputes the greenhouse ffect of CO2 and states "That human-caused climate change is not a global crisis." [7]

Affiliations

European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) [2]— Vice President [1] and Deputy Press-speaker. [1]
International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) [11] — Member, Policy Advisory Board [12]. [8]
Committe for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) [6] Europe — Member, Board of Advisors [13]. [9]

Publications

Limburg has written books promoting climate change skepticism. For example, Climate hysteria - what is it? [14] published by TVR Medienverlag Jena in 2009. According to a search of Google Scholar, Limburg has only published one article in a "peer reviewed" journal related to climate/energy. His article is titled "Energy is the Key: Renewable Energy Problems in Germany: 'Renewable' Energies are not a Solution Rather They Increase Foreign Dependency." His article was published in the controversial journal Energy and Environment [15], which has been criticized for publishing sub-par articles and for catering to climate change skeptics.