Nigel Calder
Nigel Calder ( born December 2, 1931) is a British science journalist and climate skeptics.
Life and work
Between 1956 and 1966, Calder wrote for the magazine New Scientist, whose editor, he was from 1962 to 1966. From then on, he worked as an independent journalist and screenwriter. He conceived thirteen major documentaries and popular science series that were sent from the BBC and Channel 4, as well as related books. This made him internationally known. Almost all of his books have been translated into German and learned often several editions. Particularly well known were the title Einstein's universe ( Einstein 's Universe, 1979), Atomic battleground Europe. Report on the likelihood of a nuclear war in the 80s ( Nuclear Nightmares, 1979) and The Secret of the comet. Delusion and reality ( The Comet is Coming!, 1980).
For his television work, he received the 1972 Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science. 2004 was his book on Magic Universe shortlisted for the Aventis Prizes for Science Books.
Nigel Calder is the son of the late Lord Peter Ritchie Calder, a brother of the historian Angus Calder and father of the travel writer Simon Calder. More children are Sarah and Penny, Jo and Kate. His wife Liz is a literary agent and a former advisor to the London Chamber of Commerce for language training.
Position on Global Warming
Nigel Calder has been working very early on with various hypotheses of climate change. He published in 1974 The weather machine. Threatens a new ice age? (The Weather Machine ), which at the time was very popular and influential. As then came up the debate about global warming, he has refuted his climate- skeptical position as early as 1997 in The Manic Sun Air theories ( The Manic Sun - Weather Theories Confounded ) above. He sees a stronger influence of solar and atmospheric cosmic rays on climate. Together with the Danish physicist and climate scientist Henrik Svensmark, he also wrote the book stars control our climate. A new theory of global warming ( The Chilling Stars, 2007).
Science policy, he sees the research on global warming affect than ideological. So Calder said in an interview
Nigel Calder also appears in the documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle. There, he says, among other things, that Margaret Thatcher would have been granted to the popularization of CO2-free nuclear power of the Royal Society, a drastic increase in its budget to support the thesis of global warming caused by CO2 scientifically. He reports that his first press conference of the Royal Society, on the thesis of global warming caused by greenhouse gases was announced, very strange occurred as a science journalist. Only days earlier, another conference had taken place, which still discussed the influence of the sun on climate, while it has now suddenly presented with great certainty a completely different argument. The type of presentation was very authoritative and have clearly differentiated from other press conferences of the Royal Society for science subjects. So, for example, were no questions allowed.