21 Facts About Naomi Oreskes

Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science.

Naomi Oreskes 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.

Naomi Oreskes 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.

Naomi Oreskes is the daughter of Susan Eileen, a teacher, and Irwin Naomi Oreskes, a professor of medical laboratory sciences and former dean of the School of Health Sciences at Hunter College in New York.

Naomi Oreskes has three siblings: Michael Oreskes, a journalist; Daniel Oreskes, an actor; and Rebecca Oreskes, a writer and former US Forest Service ranger.

Naomi Oreskes studied at Stuyvesant High School, New York, and received her Bachelor of Science in mining geology from the Royal School of Mines of Imperial College, University of London in 1981.

Naomi Oreskes later received her PhD degree in the Stanford University Graduate Special Program in Geological Research and History of Science.

Naomi Oreskes has worked as a consultant for the United States Environmental Protection Agency and US National Academy of Sciences, and has taught at Dartmouth College, New York University, UCSD and Harvard University.

Naomi Oreskes is the author of or has contributed to a number of essays and technical reports in economic geology and history of science in addition to several books.

Naomi Oreskes's work was concerned with scientific methods, model validation, consensus, dissent, as in 2 books on the often-misunderstood history of continental drift and plate tectonics.

Naomi Oreskes later focused on climate change science and studied the doubt-creation industry opposing it.

Naomi Oreskes worked as a mining geologist for WMC in outback South Australia, based in Adelaide.

Naomi Oreskes received a National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award in 1994.

Since 2013, Naomi Oreskes has served as a professor at Harvard University in the Department of the History of Science and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Naomi Oreskes is on the board of directors of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.

Naomi Oreskes wrote an essay "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change", published in the science and society section of the journal Science in December 2004.

In 2007, Naomi Oreskes expanded her analysis, stating that approximately 20 percent of abstracts explicitly endorsed the consensus on climate change that: "Earth's climate is being affected by human activities".

The remaining 25 percent focused on either paleoclimate or developing measurement techniques ; Naomi Oreskes did not classify these as taking a position on contemporary global climate change.

Naomi Oreskes cited an article by four prominent climate scientists saying nuclear power must be used to combat climate change.

Naomi Oreskes criticized Oreskes and invited her and the public to read approximately 187 documents written between 1977 and 2014.