Benny Peiser

Benny Peiser Josef ( * 1957 in Haifa, Israel) is a cultural theorist.

Peiser studied political science, English and sports science at the University of Frankfurt. He received his doctorate at the University of Frankfurt with an examination of historical, archaeological and natural history problems of the Greek time axis using the example of the ancient Olympic Games in 1993. Until July 2010, he taught at the Faculty of Sports and Training Sciences Liverpool John Moores University.

It deals, inter alia, to with the issue of catastrophism and apocalyptic visions of the world in the earth and human history.

Peiser is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Spaceguard Association, and has dealt with possible consequences of impacts of meteorites and other near-Earth objects and the planning of countermeasures. He was moderator of the Cambridge Conference Network ( CCNet ), a network of scientists and interested in politics on the topics catastrophism in general and near-Earth objects in particular. For his services a Small Planet ( Minor Planet ( 7107 ) Peiser ) was named after him by the International Astronomical Union. He is co-editor of the journal Energy and Environment, and consultant for the British Lifeboat Foundation.

Peiser writes for Spiked, Novo and is a member of Blogs The Axis of Good.

In the controversy about global warming he appears as a climate skeptic. He sees a serious difference between the political rhetoric on climate change, which he perceives as hysterical and apocalyptic, and the facts and measures. Peiser fears that exaggerated claims can promote a new form of terrorism to negative consequences of climate change. Global warming is more advantageous from a British perspective.

In 2004, he criticized the published in Science article Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change by Naomi Oreskes in which they had passed through the abstracts of 928 scientific publications containing the keywords "global climate change" and a peer review successfully had evaluated and concludes that a scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming. Peiser claimed to have found in their own research 34 works in which human activities were questioned or rejected as the main cause of climate change, Science called in two letters to withdraw the article by Oreskes and publicly protested, when Science refused his reprint opinion. In 2006, he took back the main points of his criticism of Oreskes and was able to demand only call a single climate- skeptical scientific work that was relevant in his opinion.

Since 2009 he is director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think tank of skeptics of manmade global warming. In connection with the hacking incident on climate research center of the University of East Anglia, he was heard by the Science Committee of the House of Commons on 1 March 2010.

Peiser stepped twice as speaker at the Climate Change Conference of the Heartland Institute. Critics accuse him his lack of qualification ahead in the field of climatology.

Publications

  • Post- Mycenaean Greek History Begins in the 6th Century BCE. In: Milton Zysman & Clark Whelton (ed.): Catastrophism 2000: A source book for the conference Reconsidering Velikovsky. August 17 to 19, 1990, University of Toronto. Heretic Press, Toronto, 1990, ISBN 1895416000, pp. 265 ff
  • The Dark Ages Olympias. Critical examination of the historical, archaeological and natural history problems of the Greek time axis using the example of the ancient Olympic Games. Lang, Frankfurt [ et al ] 1993, ISBN 3-631-46522- X
  • Trevor Palmer and Mark E. Bailey ( ed.): Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilizations. Archaeological, Geological and Astronomical Perspectives. Archaeopress, 1998, ISBN 0-86054-916- X
  • Climate Change and Civilisation Collapse. In: Kendra Okonski (ed.): Adapt or Die: The science, politics and economics of climate change. Profile Books, London 2003, ISBN 1861977956, pp. 191-201 (PDF, 56 KB)
  • Michael Paine: The frequency and consequences of cosmic impacts since the demise of the dinosaurs. In: Ray P. Norris & Frank H. Stootman (ed.): Bioastronomy 2002: Life among the Stars. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Sydney 2004, ISBN 1583811710, pp. 214-226 (PDF, 243 KB)
  • Thomas Reilly: Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective. In: Journal of Sports Science. 22, 10, 2004, pp. 981-1002, doi: 10.1080/02640410400000298
  • From Genocide to Ecocide: The Rape of Rapa Nui. In: Energy & Environment. Vol 16, No. 3 & 4, 2005, pp. 513-539 (PDF)
  • Cultural aspects of neo- catastrophism: Implications for archaeoastronomy. In: John W. Fountain & Rolf M. Sinclair (Ed.): Current Studies in Archaeoastronomy. The Carolina Academic Press Press, Durham 2005, ISBN 0890897719, pp. 25-37
  • Thomas Reilly: Seasonal variations in health-related human physical activity. In: Sports Medicine. Vol 36, Issue 6, 2006, doi: 10.2165/00007256-200636060-00002, pp. 473-485
  • With Andrew J. Ball & Simon P. Kelley: Near Earth Objects and the Impact Hazard. Open University, Milton Keynes, 2006, ISBN 0749214341
  • Thomas Reilly, Greg Atkinson, Barry Drust & Jim Waterhouse: Seasonal changes and physiological responses: Their impact on activity, health, exercise and athletic performance. In: International Journal SportMed. Vol 7, No. 1, 2006, pp. 16-32
  • Barry W. Brook, David MJS Bowman, David A. Burney, Timothy F. Flannery, Michael K. Gagan, Richard Gillespie, Christopher N. Johnson, Peter Kershaw, John W. Magee, Paul S. Martin, Gifford H. Miller, & Richard G. Roberts: Would the Australian megafauna have become extinct if humans had never Colonised the continent? Comments on " A review of the evidence for a human role in the extinction of Australian megafauna and to alternative explanation" by S. Wroe and J. Field. In: Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol 26, Issues 1-2, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.10.008, 2007, pp. 560-564
  • Seasonal Affective Disorder and Exercise Treatment. A Review. In: Biological Rhythm Research. Vol 40, Issue 1, 2009, doi: 10.1080/09291010802067171, pp. 85-97

Left

  • Literature by and about Benny Peiser in the catalog that German national library
  • Website of the Cambridge Conference Network (1997-2003)
  • The elimination of Blood Sacrifice in Judaism, summary of a lecture by Peiser at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester, February 1, 2000
  • "Asteroid Barely Misses Earth": New Asteroid Scare In Germany, Article by Benny Peiser in the Sierra Times, October 6, 2000 ( referring to " graze ": Asteroid misses Earth barely in Spiegel Online, October 3rd 2000)
  • Sub - Critical Impacts falling on the Holocene, summary of a lecture by Peiser at the conference Environmental Catastrophes and Recoveries in the Holocene, 2002
  • Blair Deserts Kyoto, articles by Benny Peiser in Hawaii Reporter, December 8, 2005 ( Internet Archive )

Footnotes

  • Briton
  • English
  • Author
  • University teachers (Liverpool )
  • Born in 1957
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