Naomi Oreskes
Naomi Oreskes is Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and an internationally renowned scientist, historian, and author.
Her research focuses on consensus and dissent in science: How do scientists decide when a fact is "established?" How do they judge how much evidence is sufficient to deem something scientifically demonstrated? And what happens when scientists can't agree? Her 2004 essay "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change" has been widely cited, including in the Royal Society's publication, "A Guide to Facts and Fictions about Climate Change," in the Academy-award winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, in Ian McEwan's novel, Solar, as well as in the Times (London), Le Monde, La Recherche, Politiken (Copenhagen), Corriere della Sera (Italy), The Irish Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, and Reuters. Her opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Nature, Science, The New Statesman, and elsewhere. Her latest work, Merchants of Doubt, How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global warming, with co-author Erik M. Conway, was shortlisted for the 2010 Los Angeles Time Book Prize, and has recently been released in paperback.
What she presents:
The scientific consensus on climate change: how do we know we're not wrong?
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming.
Technological Transformation: How do we get there from here?