Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose

Adrian Michael Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose (15 June 1937 – 19 April 2016)[1] was a British hereditary peer, journalist, and global warming denier.

For the Alberta politician, see Adrian Douglas Berry.

Early life and education

Berry was born in 1937, the elder son of Michael Berry, who was created Lord Hartwell in 1968 and who disclaimed the family title of Viscount Camrose in 1995, by his marriage to Lady Pamela Smith, younger daughter of F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead.[1] He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.

Career

From 1977 until 1996, Camrose was the science correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. On stepping down from that position he became the paper's Consulting Editor (Science).[1]

He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.

Climate change

In his article published in The Sunday Telegraph in 2015, Berry denied the scientific consensus on climate change by claiming that climate change "has more to do with the violent outbursts of energy that our solar system meets on its eternal passage through the Milky Way" than with carbon dioxide.[2] Berry served on the advisory committee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think tank that promotes climate-change denial[3] and claims that policies proposed by governments to mitigate anthropogenic global warming are "extremely damaging and harmful".[4]

Marriage and family

On 4 January 1967,[5] Berry married Marina Beatrice Sulzberger, daughter of Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II (a member of the family which owns The New York Times) and Marina Tatiana Ladas. The couple had two children:[6]

Publications
  • The next ten thousand years: a vision of man's future in the universes (London: Cape, 1974), ISBN 0-340-19924-5
  • The iron sun: crossing the universe through black holes (London: Cape, 1977), ISBN 0-340-23231-5
  • From apes to astronauts (London: Daily Telegraph, 1980), ISBN 0-901684-60-0
  • High skies and yellow rain (London: Daily Telegraph, 1983)
  • The super-intelligent machine: an electronic odyssey (London: Cape, 1983), ISBN 0-224-01967-8
  • The Next 500 Years (London: Headline, 1995), ISBN 0-7472-4395-6
  • Ice With Your Evolution (1986), ISBN 0-245-54394-5
  • Galileo and the dolphins: amazing but true stories from science (London: B.T. Batsford, 1996), ISBN 0-7134-8067-X
  • The giant leap: mankind heads for the stars (London: Headline, 1999; rev. edn, London: Headline, 2000), ISBN 0-7472-1977-X

Arms
Coat of arms of Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose
Crest
A griffin sejant reguardant Sable collared Or.
Escutcheon
Argent three bars Gules over all a pile Ermine.
Supporters
On either side a wolf Proper gorged with a collar Or pendent therefrom an escutcheon Sable charged with two pens in saltire Argent.
Motto
Vivere Virtute (To Live In Virtue)[7]

Sources
  • ThePeerage.com
  • Debrett's People of Today (12th edn, London: Debrett's Peerage, 1999), p. 157

References
  1. "Viscount Camrose". Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  2. "The Night Sky February 2015: Is climate change caused by astronomical events beyond our control?", The Sunday Telegraph, 1 February 2015, retrieved 1 February 2016
  3. Johnston, Ian (11 May 2014), "Nigel Lawson's climate-change denial charity 'intimidated' environmental expert", The Independent, archived from the original on 11 May 2014, retrieved 1 February 2016
  4. "Ed Miliband clashes with Lord Lawson on global warming". BBC News. news.bbc.co.uk. 6 December 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
  5. "Miss Sulzberger Becomes Bride Of Adrian Berry; Daughter of Columnist Wed in Paris to Son of London Publisher". The New York Times. 5 January 1967. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  6. The Peerage, entry for 4th Viscount Camrose
  7. Debrett's Peerage. 2019.
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