In honour of Nigel Calder

This notice of a meeting to honour the life and works of Nigel Calder has just been published.

Nigel Calder 1931-2014

Memorial meeting

Royal Astronomical Society
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J OBQ

Tuesday 2 December 2014 at 4pm

Followed by an informal reception 5-6pm

This is to let you know that we are arranging an hour-long programme of talks celebrating the life and work of the science writer Nigel Calder.  Speakers are to be confirmed but will include his co-writer and friend Professor Henrik Svensmark. This event will take place on 2 December, which would have been Nigel’s 83^rd birthday.

Further details, including how to reserve a seat, will be published on Nigel's blog on 11 November.  In the interim, any enquiries may be made by phone to 07771 620433.

Comments

[alex]

Wiki says:

>>Calder said that climate change science has been invaded by sophistry about man-made global warming.[2] As early as 1980, he predicted that within 20 years "the much-advertised heating of the earth by the man-made carbon-dioxide ‘greenhouse’ [will fail] to occur; instead, there [will be] renewed concern about cooling and an impending ice age".[3]<<

[Messenger]

Nigel Calder on The Hockey Stick Illusion

This is a thriller about codebreaking- not Napoleon's or Hitler's codes, but computer codes that generated a false signal to the world about runaway global warming.

[Martin A]

Nigel Calder was high on the True Believers list of heretics. He had a Cambridge physics degree and worked for the first two years of his career at the Mullard Research Laboratory, but Desmogblog has this to say about him:

Although Calder has been employed as a “Science Writer,” he does not appear to have credentials as a scientist.
(...)
Nigel Calder served his apprenticeship as a science writer (not a scientist) on the original staff of the magazine New Scientist, and became its editor from 1962-66.

[Steve Jones]

Sep 26, 2014 at 8:50 PM | Registered CommenterMartin A

Martin,

Genuine scientific credentials, such as those possessed by Mr Calder, would not be recognised by the climate charlatans.

[John Marshall]

He was a good man who understood the physics and wrote it as he saw it.

Martin is wrong to claim that he was not a scientist. He had a degree in physics and worked in that field. Mullard employed him for a good reason. His good writings produced more money to live on than working in a lab.

Martin, if you think that to be a scientist you have to work in a lab. then that means that ALL the IPCC scientists are no longer scientists. (Which is probably correct)

[Martin A]

@ John Marshall "Martin is wrong to claim that he was not a scientist."

Huh? Did you read what I said?

Obviously it would be utterly ludicrous to say that someone who worked as a research physicist at Mullard Laboratories was not a scientist.

I was quoting what the fools at desmogblog wrote.

[John Shade]

Nigel Calder, a good man who deserves to be so honoured. His great writing skills helped make scientific advances and scientific thinking widely accessible. A productive and positive contributor to our understanding of climate science. As the old phrase goes, he will be sorely missed but fondly remembered.

[Orson]

Nigel wrote compellingly, with an enviable style and a vast command of facts and vivid metaphor. He set a standard of concision and accuracy that few science writers could match today.