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

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and journalist

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

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in 1995, by his marriage to Lady Pamela Smith, younger daughter of

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. He was educated at Eton and

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Career

From 1977 until 1996, Camrose 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.

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

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and claims that policies proposed by governments to mitigate

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are "extremely damaging and harmful".

Marriage and family

On 4 January 1967, Berry married Marina Beatrice Sulzberger, daughter of Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II (whose family 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)

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

External links

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