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Naomi Oreskes is an internationally renowned science historian and prolific author of dozens of books, essays, and editorials on environmental science and the politics of anthropogenic climate change. This panel aims to further explore how scientific advancements shape our perception of our political climate—and vice versa.
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NAOMI ORESKES is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She is an internationally renowned earth scientist, science historian, and author of both scholarly and popular books and articles on the history of earth and environmental science.
Oreskes has been a leading voice on the science and politics of anthropogenic climate change. Her 2004 essay “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change” (Science 306: 1686)--the first peer-reviewed paper to document the scientific consensus on this crucial issue--has been cited more than 2500 times. It was featured in the landmark Royal Society publication, “A Guide to Facts and Fictions about Climate Change,"; and in the Academy-award winning film, An Inconvenient Truth.
Her 2010 book, Merchants of Doubt (co-authored with Erik M. Conway), has been translated into nine languages and made into a documentary film produced by Participant Media and distributed by SONY Pictures Classics. Her 2014 Ted Talk, Why We Should Trust Scientists, has over 1.6 million views. In 2018 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow for a book project with Erik M. Conway, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. It was released by Bloomsbury Press in February 2023, and has been widely reviewed, including in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and New Yorker.
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