Rate Professor Naomi Oreskes

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Geological Research and History of Science, Stanford University, 1990; B.S. in Mining Geology, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London, 1981.

Research Interests: History of science, climate change, science and public policy.

Appointments: Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University (current); Affiliated Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.

Publications:

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury Press, 2010).
• The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Columbia University Press, 2014).

Additional Contributions: Frequent public speaker on climate change denial; contributor to The New York Times.