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Naomi Oreskes

Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University and the co-author, with Erik M Conway, of Merchants of Doubt (Bloomsbury, 2010) and The Collapse of Western Civilization (2014 Columbia University Press and Les Liens qui Liberent).

November 2021

  • Composite illustration of oil ads from 1962 to 2020

    Climate crimes
    The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing

    Since the 1980s, fossil fuel firms have run ads touting climate denial messages – many of which they’d now like us to forget. Here’s our visual guide

October 2020

  • A group of climate activists rally across from a courthouse where ExxonMobile was sued by the New York attorney general, November 2019.

    ExxonMobil misled the public about the climate crisis. Now they're trying to silence critics

    Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes
    Newly leaked documents reported by Bloomberg News show that ExxonMobil’s climate dishonesty is even worse than we thought

January 2020

  • us-politics-EXXONMOBILE-PROTEST<br>Climate activists protest on the first day of the ExxonMobil trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on October 22, 2019 in New York City. - Charges that Exxon Mobil misled investors on the financial risks of climate change will be heard in court after a New York judge gave the green light for a trial. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Big oil is the new big tobacco. Congress must use its power to investigate

    Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes
    Americans had the right to know the harms of smoking. They have the right to know the harms of the energy industry, too

October 2019

  • Blanca Gonzales, left, and Susan Cooper protest ExxonMobil’s climate change policies in Dallas.

    Exxon has misled Americans on climate change for decades. Here’s how to fight back

    John Cook, Geoffrey Supran, Naomi Oreskes, Ed Maibach and Stephan Lewandowsky
    It’s crucial to expose the fossil fuel industry’s disinformation tactics so the public doesn’t fall prey to the next effort

June 2017

  • Donald Trump

    The Republican party – not Trump – is the biggest obstacle to climate action

    Naomi Oreskes
    Republicans have been resisting action on climate change for just about as long as scientists have been asking the world to do something about it

December 2015

  • climate

    There is a new form of climate denialism to look out for – so don't celebrate yet

    Naomi Oreskes
    At the exact moment in which we need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuel, we’re being told that renewable sources can’t meet our energy needs

March 2015

  • Models and layouts displayed at an exhibition stand during the 21st World Petroleum Congress (WPC) in Moscow, Russia, 16 June 2014. The 21st World Petroleum Congress is scheduled for 15 to 19 June 2014, in Moscow.

    Keep it in the ground
    Fossil fuel firms are still bankrolling climate denial lobby groups

    Peter C Frumhoff and Naomi Oreskes
    Peter C Frumhoff and Naomi Oreskes: Oil, gas and coal companies remain firmly behind climate disinformation campaigns

April 2014

  • fossil fuel plant

    Universities must end financial ties to climate denying fossil-fuel giants – now

    Naomi Oreskes and Clara Belitz in Cambridge, Massachusetts
    Naomi Oreskes and Clara Belitz: Schools like Harvard foster knowledge, yet they're investing in an industry that has undermined that work
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