“Congress was also looking into climate change. The 1978 National Climate Act had established a national climate research program,” — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through … a steady increase in carbon dioxide from… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“The tobacco road would lead through Star Wars, nuclear winter, acid rain, and the ozone hole, all the way to global warming.… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“By the early 2000s, dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system was under way. Fires, floods, hurricanes, and heat waves began to… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“The chapters written by the natural scientists were broadly consistent with what other natural scientists had already said. No one challenged the… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
There's real economic costs to climate change - So, Superstorm Sandy led to billions of dollars in damages. The fires out in… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“CO2 had increased due to human activities, CO2 will continue to increase unless changes are made, and these increases will affect weather,… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“Santer and his colleagues have shown that the troposphere is warming and the stratosphere is cooling. In fact, because the boundary between… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“If you believed in capitalism, you had to attack science, because science had revealed the hazards that capitalism had brought in its… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg, wrote a report questioning the evidence of global warming.15 They were soon invited to the White House… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“In case after case, Fred Singer, Fred Seitz, and a handful of other scientists joined forces with think tanks and private corporations… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“If you believed in capitalism, you had to attack science, because science had revealed the hazards that capitalism had brought in its wake. The… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
“By the early 2000s, dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system was under way. Fires, floods, hurricanes, and heat waves began to intensify. Still,… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
“The writer C. S. Lewis once characterized this style of argument: “The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
“Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg, wrote a report questioning the evidence of global warming.15 They were soon invited to the White House to brief… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
“Congress was also looking into climate change. The 1978 National Climate Act had established a national climate research program,” — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
I think Pope Francis is our Pope Francis. I mean, the point of him is that he's a global leader, and he's trying, I… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
“While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science, because science… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it. — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In this essay,… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
There's real economic costs to climate change - So, Superstorm Sandy led to billions of dollars in damages. The fires out in the west,… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
“The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions” — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share
