Naomi Oreskes

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Naomi Oreskes is affiliated with the following schools: Harvard University, Dartmouth College, University of California, San Diego, Imperial College London, Colorado College, New York University, Stanford University

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Areas of Specialization: History of Environmental Sciences, Science Policy, Philosophy of Science
Naomi Oreskes is a Professor of the History of Science, and an Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She earned a B.S. in mining geology from the Royal School of Mines of the Imperial College London. She went on to earn a Ph.D in geological research and history of science from Stanford University. Her body of work has encompassed geology, scientific methods, climate change, plate tectonics and the history and philosophy of science.

In 2004, she wrote an essay about evolving views on climate change, called Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change, which has been cited by Al Gore. She also co wrote a book about the climate debate, called Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, which surveyed views regarding climate change from a history of science viewpoint, and drawing parallels between climate change and other controversial scientific theories such as acid rain.

She has also written other notable works, including The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science and most recently, Why Trust Science, which was published in 2019. Her recent work explores the doubt-creation machine driving propaganda about climate change.

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According to Wikipedia, Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science. She became Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University in 2013, after 15 years as Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She has worked on studies of geophysics, environmental issues such as global warming, and the history of science. In 2010, Oreskes co-authored Merchants of Doubt, which identified some parallels between the climate change debate and earlier public controversies, notably the tobacco industry's campaign to obscure the link between smoking and serious disease.

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Verification, Validation, and Confirmation of Numerical Models in the Earth Sciences (1994) (3038)
The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene (2016) (1502)
The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change (2004) (1157)
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (2010) (1062)
Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming (2016) (869)
Geological characteristics and tectonic setting of proterozoic iron oxide (CuUAuREE) deposits (1992) (563)
When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal (2015) (485)
Beyond the ivory tower. The scientific consensus on climate change. (2004) (376)
Climate change prediction: Erring on the side of least drama? (2013) (271)
The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations (2017) (264)
Science and public policy: what's proof got to do with it? (2004) (261)
Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014) (2017) (227)
Origin of rare earth element-enriched hematite breccias at the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, Roxby Downs, South Australia (1990) (220)
Evaluation (not validation) of quantitative models. (1998) (214)
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (2013) (189)
Big Science and Big Data in Biology: From the International Geophysical Year through the International Biological Program to the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, 1957––Present (2010) (179)
Defeating the merchants of doubt (2010) (163)
Why Trust Science? (2019) (161)
The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science (1999) (159)
Origin of hydrothermal fluids at Olympic Dam; preliminary results from fluid inclusions and stable isotopes (1992) (151)
Seepage: Climate change denial and its effect on the scientific community (2015) (150)
Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective (2017) (126)
Interview with the Authors (2014) (120)
The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How Do We Know We’re Not Wrong? (2018) (120)
The climate responsibilities of industrial carbon producers (2015) (117)
Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History Of The Modern Theory Of The Earth (2002) (116)
Well-estimated global surface warming in climate projections selected for ENSO phase (2014) (111)
Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene (2016) (105)
Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: an analysis of ongoing critiques (2017) (103)
Science and Technology in the Global Cold War (2014) (103)
Objectivity or Heroism? On the Invisibility of Women in Science (1996) (100)
The Rejection of Continental Drift (1988) (96)
Potential emissions of CO2 and methane from proved reserves of fossil fuels: An alternative analysis☆ (2016) (94)
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (2012) (94)
The Bottom Line or Public Health: Tactics Corporations Use to Influence Health and Health Policy and What We Can Do to Counter Them (2010) (87)
The pause in global warming: Turning a routine fluctuation into a problem for science (2016) (84)
Adaptation to Global Warming: Do Climate Models Tell Us What We Need to Know? (2010) (74)
The rapid disintegration of projections: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2012) (62)
Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil's climate change communications (2021) (61)
Oxygen Isotope Composition of Magnetite Deposits at El. Laco, Chile Evidence of Formation from Isotopically Heavy Fluids (1999) (60)
Climate Change Attribution: When Is It Appropriate to Accept New Methods? (2018) (57)
On the definition and identifiability of the alleged “hiatus” in global warming (2015) (57)
Challenging knowledge: How climate science became a victim of the Cold War (2008) (55)
The Anthropocene: a conspicuous stratigraphical signal of anthropogenic changes in production and consumption across the biosphere (2016) (52)
Discerning Experts (2019) (51)
2 The Role of Quantitative Models in Science (2003) (48)
A Context of Motivation (2003) (47)
From Chicken Little to Dr. Pangloss: William Nierenberg, Global Warming, and the Social Deconstruction of Scientific Knowledge (2008) (43)
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists have Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change (2015) (40)
Maximum sustained yield: a policy disguised as science (2013) (36)
How earth science has become a social science (2015) (32)
Why fossil fuel producer subsidies matter (2020) (32)
Metaphors of warfare and the lessons of history: time to revisit a carbon tax? (2011) (29)
The fact of uncertainty, the uncertainty of facts and the cultural resonance of doubt (2015) (29)
Assessing climate change impacts on extreme weather events: the case for an alternative (Bayesian) approach (2017) (29)
How Well Do Facts Travel?: My Facts Are Better Than Your Facts: Spreading Good News about Global Warming (2010) (27)
Origin of epithermal Ag–Au–Cu–Pb–Zn mineralization in Guanajuato, Mexico (2013) (27)
A fluctuation in surface temperature in historical context: reassessment and retrospective on the evidence (2018) (25)
Science in the Origins of the Cold War (2014) (25)
Influence and seepage: An evidence-resistant minority can affect public opinion and scientific belief formation (2019) (25)
A fluid inclusion and isotope study of the Rayas Ag-Au-Cu-Pb-Zn mine, Guanajuato, Mexico (1991) (21)
Science and Security before the Atomic Bomb: The Loyalty Case of Harald U. Sverdrup (2000) (21)
Scaling Up Our Vision (2014) (20)
The Role of Quantitative Models in Science (2021) (20)
American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists (2009) (20)
Majority of German citizens, US citizens and climate scientists support policy advocacy by climate researchers and expect greater political engagement (2020) (19)
Response by Oreskes to “Beyond Counting Climate Consensus” (2017) (17)
The ‘pause’ in global warming in historical context: (II). Comparing models to observations (2018) (17)
Why I Am a Presentist (2013) (16)
Uses and limitations of cathodoluminescence in the study of apatite paragenesis (1997) (15)
Severe weather event attribution: Why values won't go away. (2020) (14)
Addendum to ‘Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014)’ Supran and Oreskes (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 084019) (2020) (13)
Characterizing uncertainty in expert assessments: ozone depletion and the West Antarctic ice sheet (2011) (13)
Systematicity is necessary but not sufficient: on the problem of facsimile science (2019) (12)
"Laissez-tomber": Military Patronage and Women's Work in Mid-20th-Century Oceanography (2000) (12)
Why Believe a Computer? Models, Measures, and Meaning in the Natural World (2018) (11)
Viewpoint: Why Disclosure Matters. (2015) (10)
Perspectives on global warming (2012) (9)
Climate Change Attribution (2019) (9)
Earth science: How plate tectonics clicked (2013) (9)
Symmetrical transparency in science. (2011) (8)
Testing Models of Natural Systems: Can It be Done? (1997) (8)
Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections (2023) (8)
What Is the Social Responsibility of Climate Scientists? (2020) (7)
From Scaling to Simulation: Changing Meanings and Ambitions of Models in Geology (2007) (7)
Climate scientists set the bar of proof too high (2021) (7)
The Religious Politics of Scientific Doubt: Evangelical Christians and Environmentalism in the United States (2017) (7)
Models in Geosciences (2017) (6)
The Devil is in the (Historical) Details: Continental Drift as a Case of Normatively Appropriate Consensus? (2008) (6)
Beware: transparency rule is a Trojan Horse (2018) (6)
The Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (2001) (6)
The Denial of Global Warming (2018) (5)
THE “PAUSE” IN GLOBAL WARMING (2016) (5)
On the “reality” and reality of anthropogenic climate change (2013) (5)
First report the findings: genuine balance when reporting CTE (2019) (4)
History of Science and American Science Policy (2008) (4)
Science on a Mission (2020) (3)
The Politics of Scientific Advice: Reconciling representation with reality: unitisation as an example for science and public policy (2011) (3)
Reply to Comment on ‘Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014)’ Supran and Oreskes (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 084019) (2020) (2)
What We Have Learned about Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy (2010) (2)
To Reconcile Historical Geology with Isostasy: Continental Drift (1999) (2)
Let’s Make History More Welcoming (2016) (2)
Shaking up seismology (2004) (2)
Earth Sciences, History of (2003) (2)
Erratum: The 'pause' in global warming in historical context: II. Comparing models to observations (Environmental Research Letters (2018)13 (123007) DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf372) (2019) (2)
A Call for a Collective (2004) (2)
From Anti-Government to Anti-Science: Why Conservatives Have Turned Against Science (2022) (2)
Science and policy: Crossing the boundary (2015) (2)
Science, Technology and Free Enterprise (2010) (2)
Don’t gloss over social science! a response to: Glavovic et al. (2021) ‘the tragedy of climate change science’ (2022) (2)
The methodological beliefs of geologists (1999) (2)
Models all the way down (2012) (1)
American geological practice : participation and examination (1990) (1)
Changing the Mission (2014) (1)
Weighing the Earth from a Submarine: The Gravity Measuring Cruise of The U.S.S. S-21 (2013) (1)
Difference between interim and final acid-rain reports (2010) (1)
How to break the climate dealock. (2015) (1)
A Historical Analysis of U.S. Fisheries Science, Development and Management, 1945–1995 (2008) (1)
Getting Oceanography Done (2000) (1)
Erratum: The ‘pause’ in global warming in historical context: II. Comparing models to observations (2018 Environ. Res. Lett. 13 123007) (2019) (1)
Anti-Realism in Government (2005) (1)
Book Review:Drifting Continents and Colliding Paradigms: Perspectives on the Geoscience Revolution John A. Stewart (1991) (0)
Should We Trust Science? Perspectives from the History and Philosophy of Science (2015) (0)
Characterizing uncertainty in expert assessments (2011) (0)
Oleg A. Godin;, David R. Palmer (Editors).History of Russian Underwater Acoustics. xx + 1,211 pp., illus., figs., tables. Hackensack, N.J.: World Scientific Publishing, 2008. $170 (cloth). (2010) (0)
Uncertainty as Impetus for Climate Mitigation (2015) (0)
Lexicon of Archaic Terms (2014) (0)
Majority of German and US citizens support policy advocacy by climate researchers (2020) (0)
Response : The Meaning of Models (1994) (0)
The Role of Uncertainty in Climate Science (2012) (0)
3. Market Failure (2014) (0)
Are debatable scientific questions debatable? (Invited) (2010) (0)
1 History and Development of the Anthropocene as a Stratigraphic Concept CONTENTS 1 . 1 A General Introduction to the Anthropocene 2 (2019) (0)
The Coming of the Penumbral Age (2017) (0)
Quantifying expert consensus against the existence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program (2016) (0)
2. The Frenzy of Fossil Fuels (2014) (0)
Systematicity is necessary but not sufficient: on the problem of facsimile science (2017) (0)
Models all the way down (2011) (0)
The Rising Tide of Plate Tectonics (2013) (0)
Homo Sapiens as Geological Agents (2015) (0)
Plate Tectonics (2018) (0)
Understanding and modelling extreme El Nino events (2016) (0)
The Bloody Autumn of Butcher's Crossing: Butcher's Crossing, John Williams (2022) (0)
The Communication of Value Judgements and its Effects on Climate Scientists’ Perceived Trustworthiness (2022) (0)
A Historical Analysis of the Collapse of Pacific Groundfish: U.S. Fisheries Science, Development, and Management, 1945–1995 (2007) (0)
If the predictions of climate models have come true, then why don't people believe them? (Invited) (2010) (0)
12 Fragen an … 12 Questions to … (2015) (0)
From Disinformation to Wishful Thinking (2014) (0)
Perspectives on global warming (2012) (0)
Crying Wolf v. Fiddling while Rome Burns: Historical Perspectives on Scientists' Social Responsibility (2015) (0)
How Should We Talk About Climate Change (2017) (0)
Author’s response (2001) (0)
Beware: transparency rule is a Trojan Horse (2018) (0)
How American Businessmen Made Us Believe that Free Enterprise was Indivisible from American Democracy: The National Association of Manufacturers’ Propaganda Campaign 1935–1940 (2020) (0)
AGU Should Sever Its Ties with ExxonMobil (2016) (0)
Fall 2012: On Public Opinion (2012) (0)
The Humanistic and Religious Foundations of Deep Time (2006) (0)
Rethinking Uncertainty: What Does the Public Need to Know? (2012) (0)
Book Review:Gender and Scientific Authority Barbara Laslett, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Helen Longino, Evelynn Hammonds (1998) (0)
History of Russian Underwater Acoustics (2010) (0)
1 Continental Drift (2005) (0)
Philip J. Pauly. Biologists and the Promise of American Life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 313 pp. ISBN 0-691-04977-7. (2003) (0)
Trends in American scientists’ political donations and implications for trust in science (2022) (0)
Book Review (2020) (0)
Stepping Forward Too Far? (2003) (0)
Paul N. Edwards: A vast machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming. Boston MA: The MIT Press, 2010, 528pp, $32.95/£24.95 HB (2011) (0)
Reticence, Accuracy and Efficacy (2015) (0)
Supporting scientific communication in public debate (2018) (0)
The problem with supply-side science (2009) (0)
Uncertainty Assessment: What Good Does it Do? (Invited) (2013) (0)
Climate change is not all disaster and uncertainty (2013) (0)
Explaining climate danger (2016) (0)
From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics (2018) (0)
The trouble with the supply-side model of science (2022) (0)
H. E. Le Grand. Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. vi.+ 313. ISBN 0-521-32210-3, £30.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-521-31105-5, £10.95 (paper). (1990) (0)
Has there ever been good evidence for a "global warming hiatus"? (2018) (0)
Review symposia (1996) (0)
Understaning the "funding effect" (2016) (0)

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