Michael Limburg

Credentials

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

Background

Michael Limburg is the Vice President and Deputy Press-speaker for the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE). 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) 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 and the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE). 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 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), the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), The Liberal Institute of the Foundation for Freedom, the Institute for Enterprise (IUF), and the Confederation of Freedom Science. 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, a document presented at the Heartland Institute'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) — Vice President and Deputy Press-speaker. [1]
International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC)— Member, Policy Advisory Board. [8]
Committe for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) Europe — Member, Board of Advisors. [9]

Publications

Limburg has written books promoting climate change skepticism. For example, Climate hysteria - what is it? 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, which has been criticized for publishing sub-par articles and for catering to climate change skeptics.