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Adrian Michael Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose (15 June 1937 – 19 April 2016)[1] was a Britishhereditary peer and journalist
Berry was born in 1937, the elder son ofMichael Berry, who was created Lord Hartwell in 1968 and who disclaimed the family title ofViscount Camrose in 1995, by his marriage to LadyPamela Smith, younger daughter ofF. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead.[1] He was educated atEton andChrist Church, Oxford.
From 1977 until 1996, Camrose was the science correspondent ofThe Daily Telegraph. On stepping down from that position he became the paper's Consulting Editor (Science).[1]
He was aFellow of the Royal Geographical Society, aFellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and aFellow of the British Interplanetary Society.
In his article published inThe Sunday Telegraph in 2015, Berry denied thescientific consensus on climate change by claiming thatclimate 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 theGlobal Warming Policy Foundation, athink tank that promotesclimate-change denial[3] and claims that policies proposed by governments tomitigateanthropogenicglobal warming are "extremely damaging and harmful".[4]
On 4 January 1967,[5] Berry married Marina Beatrice Sulzberger, daughter ofCyrus Leo Sulzberger II (whose family ownsThe New York Times) and Marina Tatiana Ladas. The couple had two children:[6]
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| Disclaimed Title last held by (William) Michael Berry | Viscount Camrose 2001–2016 | Succeeded by |