Theodor Landscheidt was an author, astrologer

Astrologer

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 and amateur climatologist.

In 1989, Landscheidt forecast a period of sunspot minima after 1990, accompanied by increased cold, with a stronger minimum and more intense cold which should peak in 2030 http://www.ccrsdodona.org/m_dilemma/1989/gem/sunearth.html, which he described as the "Landscheidt Minimum" His work on solar cycles is cited by global warming

Global warming

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 skeptics

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  to argue that observed warming is not anthropogenic and will soon be reversed, based on an assumption that fluctuations in climate are controlled by solar activity.

In 1983 he founded and financed the Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity in Lilienthal

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, near Bremen

Bremen

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. The Institute later moved with him to Nova Scotia, Canada.

In 2000, Landscheidt was a panelist at Rice University

Rice University

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's Baker Institute for Public Policy Global Warming Conference http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=469&SnID=2.

Peer reviewed articles

• Landscheidt, T. 2000. River Po Discharges And Cycles Of Solar Activity - Discussion. Hydrological Sciences Journal-Journal Des Sciences Hydrologiques 45 (3): 491-493.

• Landscheidt, T. 1999. Extrema In Sunspot Cycle Linked To Sun's Motion. Solar Physics 189 (2): 415-426.

• Landscheidt, T. 1988. Solar Rotation, Impulses Of The Torque In The Suns Motion, And Climatic Variation. Climatic Change 12 (3): 265-295.

• Landscheidt, T. 1987. Cyclic Distribution Of Energetic X-Ray Flares. Solar Physics 107 (1): 195-199.

• Landscheidt, T. 1981. Swinging Sun, 79-Year Cycle, And Climatic-Change. Journal Of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research 12 (1): 3-19.

Books

• Cosmic cybernetics: The foundations of a modern astrology; Ebertin-Verlag (1973), ASIN: B0006CFNX6
• Sun, Earth, Man: A Mesh of Cosmic Oscillations - How Planets Regulate Solar Eruptions, Geomagnetic Storms, Conditions of Life and Economic Cycles; Urania Trust (Mar 1989), ISBN 1871989000

External links

• http://bourabai.narod.ru/landscheidt/publications.htm
• http://landscheidt.auditblogs.com/papers-by-dr-theodor-landscheidt
• http://www.landscheidt.info