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Naomi Oreskes (/ ə ˈ r ɛ s k ə s /; [1] born November 25, 1958) [2] 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.
Oreskes and Conway write that in each case "keeping the controversy alive" by spreading doubt and confusion after a scientific consensus had been reached was the basic strategy of those opposing action. [1]
In 2004, the geologist and historian of science Naomi Oreskes analyzed the abstracts of 928 scientific papers on "global climate change" published between 1993 and 2003. 75% had either explicitly expressed support for the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change, or had accepted it as a given and were focused on evaluating its ...
The last global scientific consensus on climate change was released in 2021 through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, however scientists say that evidence shows global warming and its ...
Naomi Oreskes (2015), co-author of the book Merchants of Doubt Fred Singer (2011), a prominent opponent of greenhouse gas regulation. Naomi Oreskes, a professor of the history of science, and the co-author of the book that inspired the film.
In October 2009, the leaders of 18 US scientific societies and organizations sent an open letter to the United States Senate reaffirming the scientific consensus that climate change is occurring and is primarily caused by human activities. The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) adopted this letter as their official position statement.
In an editorial published in The Washington Post, Oreskes stated that those who opposed these scientific findings are amplifying the normal range of scientific uncertainty about any facts into an appearance that there is a great scientific disagreement, or a lack of scientific consensus. [30] Oreskes's findings were replicated by other methods ...
"This is the clear scientific consensus, but very few people seem to know it." To support his claim, Musk shared two links about a 2017 study from Denmark that said hormonal birth control could be ...