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Naomi Oreskes

Naomi Oreskes is a science historian at Harvard University, and the author of several books, including Merchants of Doubt and Why Trust Science? She has extensively researched the efforts of the fossil fuel industry to deny the reality of manmade climate change and its links to the tobacco industry.


Articles by Naomi Oreskes

oil refinery billowing smoke at sunset

From denial to delay: How the oil industry refined its strategy on climate

By Naomi Oreskes, Jeff Nesbit | Climate Change, Opinion
Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 & 2 cooling towers and containment buildings.

The false promise of nuclear power in an age of climate change

By Robert Jay Lifton, Naomi Oreskes | Climate Change, Opinion