Benny Peiser Explained

Benny Peiser
Birth Date:1957
Birth Place:Haifa, Israel
Education:PhD Cultural Studies
Alma Mater:Frankfurt University
Organisation:Director, Global Warming Policy Foundation; Founder & editor, Cambridge Conference Network; Co-editor, Energy & Environment
Occupation:Social anthropologist, writer

Benny Josef Peiser (born 1957) is a social anthropologist specialising in the environmental and socio-economic impact of physical activity on health. He was a senior lecturer in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)[1] and is a visiting fellow at the University of Buckingham.[2]

Peiser established the Cambridge Conference Network in 1997. He serves as co-editor of the journal, Energy & Environment and is a regular contributor to Canada's National Post.[3] [4] He became the director UK lobbying group Global Warming Policy Foundation in 2009. His interest as a social anthropologist, is in "how climate change is portrayed as a potential disaster and how we respond to that".[5]

Background

Born of German parents in Haifa, Israel, in 1957, Peiser's family soon returned to Germany. He grew up in Frankfurt and "spent the first 35 years of his life" in Germany.[6]

Peiser studied political science, English, and sports science at Frankfurt University, receiving a doctorate in cultural studies (Kulturwissenschaften) from that institution in 1993, for an examination of the history, archaeology and natural history of Greek problems at the time of the ancient Olympic Games.[7] [8]

Drawn by "concerns about nuclear energy and its waste", he reportedly was involved with the German Green Party while a student.

Upon completing his doctoral degree, Peiser moved to Liverpool, England, to take up a position as lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University.

Career and research interests

Peiser was previously employed as an historian of ancient sport at the University of Frankfurt.[9] He listed his research interests at LJMU as the effects of environmental change and catastrophic events on contemporary thought and societal evolution; climate change and science communication; international climate policy; the risks posed by near-Earth objects and satellites and the environmental and socio-economic impacts of physical activity.[10] Peiser is a member of Spaceguard UK.[11] A 10 km-wide asteroid, Minor Planet (7107) Peiser, is named in his honour by the International Astronomical Union.[12] [13]

Cambridge Conference Network

In 1997 Peiser established the Cambridge Conference Network, an email-based discussion group for a conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies about Bronze Age catastrophes. Over time the network began to focus on discussion on climate change and was renamed CCNet (active from 1997 to 2006),[14] to provide a platform for "the minority of people who are climate (change) sceptics or have doubts about the prevailing views".[5]

On 11–13 July 1997, Benny Peiser and co-editors in the Second Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Cambridge Conference held at Fitzwilliam College, examined astronomical and meteoritic background of catastrophic thinking, for example near-Earth objects, cometary catastrophes and ecological disasters. Proceedings were compiled in a publication entitled Natural Catastrophes during Bronze Age Civilisations.[15]

Climate change denial

Peiser has denied the reality of anthropogenic climate change in a number of editorials and speaking engagements.[16] [17] [18] [19] Benny Peiser is director of global warming denialist think-tank The Global Warming Policy Foundation.[20]

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Staff Profiles . dead . 13 April 2010 . Davies, Nicky . . 17 July 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100717233111/http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/sportandexercisesciences/76407.htm .
  2. News: Evans . Lloyd . 'The global warming concern is over. Time for a return to sanity': a Spectator debate . 4 August 2022 . The Spectator . 9528 . 9 April 2011.
  3. News: Benny Peiser: Climate libel chill . The National Post . 12 March 2010.
  4. The National Post, former media magnate Conrad Black's national flagship title was established to provide a voice for Canadian conservatives and to compete with Canada's The Globe and Mail, the establishment newspaper with a liberal bias in Canadian newspapers . Outside Toronto, the National Post was built on the printing and distribution infrastructure of Black's national newspaper chain, formerly called Southam Newspapers, that included papers such as the Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, and Vancouver Sun and Benny Peiser continues to participate in stories with these newspapers as well.
  5. News: Debate is an endangered species, says climate critic . Times Higher Education Debate . Times Higher Education . 4 September 2008 . Melanie . Newman.
  6. Web site: Profile: Climate change does not pose immediate danger to the planet. Wachmann . Doreen. 2010. Jerusalem Telegraph. 22 May 2012.
  7. |editor1=Peiser, Benny J.|editor2=Trevor Palmer, and Mark E. Bailey (editors) (1998). Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilizations, BAR International Series 728. . p. 251.
  8. Peiser, Benny J. 1993. Das dunkle Zeitalter Olympias: kritische Untersuchung der historischen, archäologischen und naturgeschichtlichen Probleme der griechischen Achsenzeit am Beispiel der antiken Olympischen Spiele. Frankfurt am Main: Lang 1993, 290 pp., .
  9. Conference Schedule: "Reconsidering Velikovsky: The Role of Catastrophism in the Earth Sciences and the History of Mankind," University of Toronto, 17–19 August 1990.
  10. Web site: Department staff page . John Moores University . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141031124355/http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/sportandexercisesciences/76407.htm . 31 October 2014 .
  11. Web site: Sir Arthur Backs Liverpool's Bid For Spaceguard Scope. Space Daily.
  12. Web site: 7107 Peiser (1980 PB1). Nasa.
  13. Book: Marshall . George . Don't even think about it : why our brains are wired to ignore climate change . 2015 . New York, NY . 9781632861023 . 92 . Paperback . 3 August 2022.
  14. Web site: CCNet homepage. https://web.archive.org/web/20060507215057/http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/CCNet-homepage.htm. dead. 7 May 2006.
  15. Book: Natural Catastrophes during Bronze Age Civilisations: Archaeological, geological, Astronomical and Cultural Perspectives. 1999M&PS...34.1029G. Benny J. Peiser. Trevor E. Palmer. Mark E. Bailey. 252. 978-0-86054-916-1. Archaeopress. Oxford, United Kingdom. British Archaeological Reports International Series. 1998. Guillory. J.. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 34.
  16. Web site: This House believes that alarmism has replaced science in the global warming debate . John Moores University . 19 May 2005 . 2 December 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070703082124/http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/OxfordUnionDebate.htm . 3 July 2007.
  17. Web site: Can we go on building roads and runways and save the planet . https://web.archive.org/web/20070703082425/http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/LTT-interviewNo06.pdf . dead . 3 July 2007 . Local Transport Today . 30 November 2006 . 2 December 2009 .
  18. News: New England Section Newsletter: American Physical Society (APS) and AAPT New England Sections . Global Warming from a Critical Perspective . 19–20 October 2007 . 13 . 2 . The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut . 10 May 2013.
  19. News: Major cities at risk from rising sea level threat . The Times . 1 December 2009 . 12 September 2009 . London . Hannah . Devlin . Robin . Pagnamenta.
  20. News: The voices of climate change skeptics . Caroline Davies . Suzanne Goldenberg . The Guardian . London/Manchester . 24 November 2009 . 22 January 2010.

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