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Stefan Thiesen is a Germany, UK and USA educated earth and space scientist and science writer. He is an expert in marine science, climatology and planetary sciences, author of several popular science books in German and English as well as a novel and numerous short pieces. During the last years his professional work focused on solar energy and solar energy based water desalination and treatment solutions with projects in Europe, Africa and Asia. One of his Water Projects was a finalist in the World Bank Development Marketplace Competition of 2006. Since summer 2006 Stefan works for the development dept. of a leading European solar energy company.

Other fields of interest include marine protected areas and traditional land and ocean management. He was invited speaker on international conferences, including EU and NATO advanced research workshops. Stefan lives on an ancient farm in Westfalia/Germany together with his wife Yvette, three daughters Sophie Maris (meaning "Wisdom of the Sea"), Liv Moana (meaning "Sea Life") and Stella Marina (Meaning Star of the Sea) as well as their dog Amie.

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9 Articles, 5 Quick Links, 255 Comments, 0 Diaries, 0 Polls

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Monday, January 16, 2012 at 8:18:19 AM

Article : "Is Obama the Trojan Horse, A Psychopath, A Bad Boyfriend or "

Painful, but true


Friday, December 9, 2011 at 9:45:55 AM

Article : "Standard & Poors: Tiny Private Company threatens World's 4th"

Death


Friday, December 9, 2011 at 3:42:42 AM

Article : "Green Demons Rising"

Cold...


Friday, December 9, 2011 at 3:17:17 AM

Article : "Standard & Poors: Tiny Private Company threatens World's 4th"

Life is not a game... continued


Friday, December 9, 2011 at 3:16:00 AM

Article : "Standard & Poors: Tiny Private Company threatens World's 4th"

Life is not a game...


Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:25:49 AM

Article : "Standard & Poors: Tiny Private Company threatens World's 4th"

Jockeys and horses


Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 2:58:02 AM

Tweet : "Green Demons Rising"

Thanks


Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 2:52:24 AM

Article : "Green Demons Rising"

"treeswithfruit" link


Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 1:08:40 PM

Article : "Green Demons Rising"

Under Sirius


Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 10:58:04 AM

Article : "Green Demons Rising"

What do we want?


Monday, November 28, 2011 at 4:37:29 AM

Article : "Goldman Sachs Has Taken Over"

All check - except one thing...


Monday, November 28, 2011 at 3:22:15 AM

Quicklink : "Climate Sensitivity to CO2 More Limited than Extreme Project"

Growth and complexities


Monday, November 28, 2011 at 2:53:37 AM

Article : "Goldman Sachs Has Taken Over"

Let THEM taste their own medicine!


Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 7:15:15 AM

Quicklink : "Climate Sensitivity to CO2 More Limited than Extreme Project"

Risk and thresholds


Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 6:41:21 AM

Diary : "Get The Best Deal Ever on Premium Opednews Memberships"

Paypal rejected me


Monday, October 31, 2011 at 5:59:20 AM

Article : "Eurozone Bailout Deal: Hold The Cheers"

Indeed no reason to cheer


Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 8:01:57 AM

Article : "Jean Ziegler: "the Cannibal World Order""

Social democracy is not enough


Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 10:24:04 AM

Article : "Sorcery For Scientists"

What is real...


Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 10:04:15 AM

Article : "Sorcery For Scientists"

Causality in physics - and the nature of reality


Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 9:33:04 AM

Article : "Sorcery For Scientists"

One of your favorites...


Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 8:14:03 AM

Article : "Jean Ziegler: "the Cannibal World Order""

Masproduction of illusions


Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 8:02:38 AM

Article : "Jean Ziegler: "the Cannibal World Order""

Where is the wisdom


Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 7:45:11 AM

Article : "Sorcery For Scientists"

The unholy alliance


Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 8:07:13 AM

Article : "Jean Ziegler: "the Cannibal World Order""

Send "them" into the lava fields...


Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 6:06:41 AM

Article : "Sorcery For Scientists"

Makes me feel itchy


Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 4:26:16 AM

Article : "The Right Wing Got A Pariah And The OWS Got A Hero: When The"

So many contradictions


Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 6:55:20 AM

Article : "All I Want For Christmas Is An Occupation"

I want one, too


Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 6:09:48 AM

Article : "Debate: Republicans Unite Against Atheists"

This sentence scares me!


Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 5:59:38 AM

Article : "Debate: Republicans Unite Against Atheists"

Creating meaning


Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 3:58:11 AM

Article : "Debate: Republicans Unite Against Atheists"

apostates


Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 3:48:51 AM

Article : "Debate: Republicans Unite Against Atheists"

Free thinking vs. Freethought


Monday, October 24, 2011 at 8:40:05 AM

Article : "Debate: Republicans Unite Against Atheists"

Religion as a private aspect of lifestyle... or not?


Monday, October 24, 2011 at 8:26:43 AM

Article : "Debate: Republicans Unite Against Atheists"

lost soul agreement


Monday, October 24, 2011 at 8:17:52 AM

Article : "Debate: Republicans Unite Against Atheists"

most hated...


Monday, October 24, 2011 at 8:11:11 AM

Article : "Debate: Republicans Unite Against Atheists"

Brights and free thinkers


Monday, October 24, 2011 at 8:00:43 AM

Article : "Debate: Republicans Unite Against Atheists"

About communication and wedges...


Friday, October 21, 2011 at 3:55:40 AM

Article : "Debate: Republicans Unite Against Atheists"

The meaning of freedom


Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 8:31:10 AM

Article : "Who ARE the 99% (really?)"

Santa, Santa...


Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 7:47:11 AM

Article : "Who ARE the 99% (really?)"

Everything America does has global influence


Monday, October 17, 2011 at 8:05:06 AM

Article : "Who ARE the 99% (really?)"

Missed point


Monday, October 17, 2011 at 3:05:26 AM

Article : "THE PUBLIC OPTION IN BANKING: ANOTHER LOOK AT THE GERMAN MOD"

Wording problems, perhaps?


Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 8:25:41 AM

Article : "THE PUBLIC OPTION IN BANKING: ANOTHER LOOK AT THE GERMAN MOD"

Excellent article, but it offers no real solution


Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 8:03:25 AM

Article : "OCCUPY WALL STREET: Separating Fact from Media"

Occupy movement goes itnernational


Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 9:19:19 AM

Article : "Siemens' Abandoning Nuclear Power"

Mystic


Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 5:45:26 AM

Article : "Siemens' Abandoning Nuclear Power"

Need for high end energy efficiency


Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 5:34:41 AM

Article : "Siemens' Abandoning Nuclear Power"

Siemens is an apparatus


Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 8:38:38 AM

Article : "Siemens' Abandoning Nuclear Power"

No secrets - just business


Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 10:49:05 AM

Article : "We Get Hate Mail"

Boilerplate indeed


Friday, June 10, 2011 at 8:19:39 AM

Article : "The Mythology of Individualism"

Nozick makes me sick


Friday, June 10, 2011 at 8:18:29 AM

Article : "The Mythology of Individualism"

The ultimate concept of "dividere and conquer"


Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 4:35:25 AM

Article : "Spain's Tahrir Square"

Reclaiming Europe - with a new money system?


Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 4:33:32 AM

Article : "Spain's Tahrir Square"

More European Integration as an Answer?


Friday, April 22, 2011 at 4:41:26 AM

Article : "Is the US Military America's Biggest Security Threat?"

Deeper still


Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 5:09:59 AM

Quicklink : "The Daily Bell: Little Iceland Panics Big Banks"

Like all the rest of us


Monday, March 28, 2011 at 7:48:06 AM

Article : "Japan Nuclear Crisis-- Eerily Familiar"

And all the other places...


Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 7:31:22 AM

Article : "Michio Kaku: "We live in a Bubble" - eerily familiar excerpt"

Any real argument, please?


Friday, March 18, 2011 at 4:10:24 AM

Article : "Michio Kaku: "We live in a Bubble" - eerily familiar excerpt"

Here I agree, but there is, of course, a "but"


Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 5:55:59 PM

Article : "Michio Kaku: "We live in a Bubble" - eerily familiar excerpt"

You recommend taking industrial bleach


Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 5:47:00 PM

Article : "Michio Kaku: "We live in a Bubble" - eerily familiar excerpt"

reinforcements


Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 3:19:40 PM

Article : "Michio Kaku: "We live in a Bubble" - eerily familiar excerpt"

That's sad


Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 10:43:20 AM

Article : "Michio Kaku: "We live in a Bubble" - eerily familiar excerpt"

TV or not TV


Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 9:09:04 AM

Article : "Michio Kaku: "We live in a Bubble" - eerily familiar excerpt"

The insanity of an intelligent species


Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 7:13:02 AM

Article : "Pick My Poison? Don't Tell Me Nuclear is Necessary"

Not off grid, but...


Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 6:04:23 AM

Article : "Pick My Poison? Don't Tell Me Nuclear is Necessary"

Too dangerous to fail - and we knew very well!


Friday, March 4, 2011 at 6:09:39 AM

Article : "Will Sweden Kill Assange?"

What Swedens hea d of government said


Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 3:26:53 AM

Quicklink : "Montana GOP Lawmaker Wants To Create Official State Militia"

Losing the Overview


Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 2:58:25 AM

Article : "EGYPT, Don't Be Gyped: The Economic Crisis Behind The Protes"

I thought: Oh. Is that so...?


Monday, January 31, 2011 at 6:39:06 AM

Poll : "Poll: What Would You Like to See OpEdNews Pay More Attention"

I voted "corporate power"


Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 5:29:11 AM

Article : "Only 16% of Americans Believe Scientific, Secular Evolution"

Science


Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 4:39:20 AM

Article : "Only 16% of Americans Believe Scientific, Secular Evolution "

Culture


Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 4:23:41 AM

Article : "Only 16% of Americans Believe Scientific, Secular Evolution"

Annoyed


Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 10:37:06 AM

Article : "Assange Bail Set; But He's Still Not Free"

Law is to be applied


Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 10:32:15 AM

Article : "Assange Bail Set; But He's Still Not Free"

No extradition to the US


Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 10:23:10 AM

Article : "Assange Bail Set; But He's Still Not Free"

Meta conspiracy


Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 3:09:38 AM

Article : "Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange (A statement f"

Ending the Age of Embedded Journalism...


Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 6:57:40 AM

Article : "We Are So Screwed-- So Let's Not Take It Laying Down"

Who is the U.S. Government


Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 6:01:50 AM

Article : "Amnesia As A Way Of Life: WikiLeaks Amid The "Careless Peopl"

How things are


Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 7:00:31 PM

Article : "Last Dance of the Dinosaurs? Mixed Feelings after the German"

This was different - or the last days of a failing empire


Friday, December 3, 2010 at 3:57:18 AM

Article : "Wikileaks Cables: CIA Ordered US Diplomats to Spy"

Back stabbing - with needle pricks


Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 4:18:17 AM

Article : "To what shrinking extent do the rich any longer need the res"

Democracy or Capitalism?


Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 9:12:59 AM

Article : "Top NASA astronaut discloses shuttle encounter with disc UFO"

Most viewed?


Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 6:50:40 AM

Article : "The Large Hadron Collider (LHC): What is the Rapture Doing i"

q.e.d.


Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 12:38:20 PM

Article : "Unrestrained Capitalism Can't Solve Our Problems"

Playground for psychopaths


Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 12:29:39 PM

Article : "Unrestrained Capitalism Can't Solve Our Problems"

The famous Swiss Economist


Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 11:52:16 AM

Article : "WTF?: A Letter to Appalled, Puzzled European Friends"

Reflections


Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 11:43:45 AM

Article : "WTF?: A Letter to Appalled, Puzzled European Friends"

I also don't get it


Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 11:36:58 AM

Article : "WTF?: A Letter to Appalled, Puzzled European Friends"

As a European


Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 11:05:45 AM

Article : "Woe to the Nation Whose Destiny is Shaped by Those with an I"

Snakes in Suits


Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 4:58:17 PM

Article : "The Shape of Things to Come"

Looking at other nations


Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 3:13:20 AM

Poll : "Poll: Should Hemp and Weed Be Legalized"

Legalize weed, control weapons


Monday, September 27, 2010 at 3:40:43 AM

Article : "THE CREDIT MELTDOWN AND THE SHADOW BANKING SYSTEM: What Base"

A mathematical cartel


Monday, September 20, 2010 at 3:57:16 AM

Poll : "Poll: Is Obama Better Than Bush?"

The vantage point


Friday, September 17, 2010 at 3:41:32 AM

Article : "If That 'Mosque' ISN'T Built, This Is No Longer America"

Fundamentalist Christianity?


Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 9:51:30 AM

Article : "If That 'Mosque' ISN'T Built, This Is No Longer America"

Did I say that?


Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 8:34:22 AM

Article : "If That 'Mosque' ISN'T Built, This Is No Longer America"

Is there no difference?


Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 7:45:24 AM

Article : "If That 'Mosque' ISN'T Built, This Is No Longer America"

People not only influence religions


Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 3:08:10 AM

Article : "Californians Say Science Education Should be a Priority for"

What is the Dogma of Science?


Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 4:21:45 AM

Article : "If That 'Mosque' ISN'T Built, This Is No Longer America"

Why not just let it go?


Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 4:07:23 AM

Article : "If That 'Mosque' ISN'T Built, This Is No Longer America"

I beg to disagree


Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 3:59:16 AM

Article : "If That 'Mosque' ISN'T Built, This Is No Longer America"

Follow the constitution

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