Nigel Calder


Nigel Calder (London, December 2, 1931 - Crawley, June 25, 2014) was a British science journalist.

He wrote from 1956 to 1966 at the New Scientist magazine. He devised and wrote thirteen important documentaries on popular science subjects broadcast on the BBC and Channel 4 and the associated books. For his television work, he received a prize of UNESCO, the Kalinga Prize in 1972.

Calder was the son of Lord Peter Ritchie-Calder, brother of historian Angus Calder and father of Simon Calder, a travel guide writer.

Climate change

According to Calder, the idea was that humans are responsible for global warming nonsense. The stories in most newspapers are nothing but propaganda. The actual facts are not mentioned, according to Calder: for example, with the polar bear population, it is excellent and, contrary to what was said in 2007, Arctic sea ice has never been so high. There are no scientific evidence for the role of humankind in the warming up. It's also nonsense that human warming is getting worse: it's no warmer than 12 years ago. Calder wrote three books on climate change and participated in the documentary 'The Great Global Warming Swindle'. Literature (selection)

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