Adrian Michael Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose (15 June 1937 – 19 April 2016) was a British

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, journalist, and

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Biography

Berry was born in 1937, the elder son of Michael Berry, who was later created Lord Hartwell, and disclaimed the family title of

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, by his marriage to Lady

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, the daughter of

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. Adrian Berry was educated at

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and

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. From 1977 until 1996, he was the science correspondent of ''

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''. On stepping down from that position he became the paper's Consulting Editor (Science). He was a

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, a

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, and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.

Marriage and family

On 4 January 1967, Berry married Marina Beatrice Sulzberger, daughter of Cyrus Sulzberger (a member of the family which owns ''

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'') and Marina Tatiana Ladas. The couple had two children: The Peerage, entry for 4th Viscount Camrose
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Jessica Margaret Berry (born 11 February 1968) * Jonathan William Berry, 5th Viscount Camrose (born 26 February 1970)

Climate change

In his article published in ''

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'' in 2015, Berry denied the

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by claiming that

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"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. Berry served on the advisory committee of the

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, a

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that promotes climate-change denial and claims that policies proposed by governments to mitigate

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are "extremely damaging and harmful".

Publications

*''The next ten thousand years: a vision of man's future in the universes'' (London: Cape, 1974), *''The iron sun: crossing the universe through black holes'' (London: Cape, 1977), *''From apes to astronauts'' (London: Daily Telegraph, 1980), *''High skies and yellow rain'' (London: Daily Telegraph, 1983) *''The super-intelligent machine: an electronic odyssey'' (London: Cape, 1983), *''The Next 500 Years'' (London: Headline, 1995), *''Ice With Your Evolution'' (1986), *''Galileo and the dolphins: amazing but true stories from science'' (London: B.T. Batsford, 1996), *''The giant leap: mankind heads for the stars'' (London: Headline, 1999; rev. edn, London: Headline, 2000),

Arms

Sources

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

References

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Adrian Berry Adrian Michael Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose (15 June 1937 – 19 April 2016) was a British hereditary peer, journalist, and global warming denier. Biography Berry was born in 1937, the elder son of Michael Berry, who was later created Lord H ...

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