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Naomi Oreskes

@naomioreskes.bsky.social

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Historian, Earth Scientist, Writer, Public Intellectual. Loves: Chocolate, Red Wine, Skiing. Hates: Beets

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 9d

Thought provoking piece by my colleague #Charlie Tyson
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Can Academic Freedom Survive the Surveillance State?

Two weeks in a Boston courtroom underscore the perils of intellectual life in America.

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Reposted by Sonia I. Seneviratne, John Hogan, James Connelly

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 29d

Congrats to @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social and colleagues for this important new paper
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Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature

Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

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Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Rosie A. Fisher , and 1 more Scott C. Doney, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Rosie A. Fisher, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Sep 8

Deadline for comment on EPA endangerment finding extended to 22 Sept. Please send a comment. Here's a good piece with some ideas, and you don't have to be a scientist to comment.
blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

The Endangerment Finding: The Local Perspective Matters Right Now (Template Comment Letter Linked) - Climate Law Blog

[Here and at the end of this post, a template comment letter is linked for local governments to adapt for their own comments in the Endangerment Finding rule making process.] On August 1, 2025, the U....

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Sep 3

A bit more time if you still want to get sn eV before federal tax credit expires:

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How to Get the Federal EV Tax Credit After It Expires

A new loophole was divulged by the IRS that means you might be able to claim the federal EV tax credit after it's set to expire on September 30, 2025 — even if you don't have the car yet. Read here to...

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Reposted by Wolfgang Crämer, Silvia Secchi

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is an older piece, but important to understand how bad actors mobilize meretricious arguments, and the press often fall for it. It's happening again with spurious arguments over vaccines.

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Inside the DDT Propaganda Machine | The Tyee

Pretend to speak for poor Africans, lie about true causes of disease. That's how you get the news media to love a lethal pesticide.

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Reposted by Scott C. Doney

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Duke University Press to Launch Anthropocene History in October 2026

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Reposted by Daniel Aaron, Alan Richardson

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Aug 16

Our latest:

undark.org/2025/08/15/o...

The Impact of a Ghostwritten Paper on the Fate of Glyphosate

Opinion | A downsized EPA faces a deadline to review the herbicide’s safety without much of its in-house expertise.

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Reposted by Paul Lehmann

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Aug 14

If anyone invokes Adam Smith to justify de-regulation, they are just wrong.

Climate Change, Regulation and Health www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

Opinion | Climate Change, Regulation and Health

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Reposted by Joanna Bryson

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Aug 11

This summary is a bit off. I suggest people read the original paper:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Reposted by Joanna Bryson

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hey, nice to hear from you. I think we don't really have good metrics on how widespread fraud is, but I think there is good evidence that it is on the increase, especially because of paper mills and predatory journals. And I think the scientific community has been more than a bit complacent.

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Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Thomas Backhaus, Dana R. Fisher , and 2 more Katharine Hayhoe, Thomas Backhaus, Dana R. Fisher, Erin O’Donnell, Sara Constantino

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Aug 1

Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

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Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Dana R. Fisher

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Jul 25

Today's good news.

I am proud to have written one of the expert reports supporting the people of Vanuatu.
www.npr.org/2025/07/23/n...

Nations must act on climate change or could be held responsible, top U.N. court rules

The International Court of Justice ruled that nations have an obligation to act on climate change under international laws protecting the environment and human rights.

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Reposted by Steven French

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Jul 24

Anyone who knows anything about history knows how right this piece is:

Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Opinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Great piece by @hertsgaard on climate coverage. It's been driving me nuts how little the press are connecting the dots.
www.thenation.com/article/envi...

Americans Are Concerned About Climate Change—but They Should Be Afraid

Americans still don’t comprehend how imminent, dangerous, and far-reaching the threat is—and journalists are partly to blame.

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Reposted by Mark Petticrew, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Tuomas Mattila

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Jul 17

Some people dismiss ghost-writing as inconsequential. In our latest paper, Sasha Kaurov & I show that is NOT the case. Thanks to @sfoucart.bsky.social @stephanehorel.bsky.social who first alerted me to the #Monsanto Papers and also Paul Thacker.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The afterlife of a ghost-written paper: How corporate authorship shaped two decades of glyphosate safety discourse

Corporate ghost-writing is a form of scientific fraud: a paper is falsely presented as the work of people other than its actual authors. When such pap…

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Reposted by Mike S. Schäfer, Hugo Mercier

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world - Nature Climate Change

Literature produced inconsistent findings regarding the links between extreme weather events and climate policy support across regions, populations and events. This global study offers a holistic asse...

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Reposted by Sabine Pahl

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Jun 19

How ironic is this? We can use energy intensive AI to predict weather, while it’s emissions drive climate change. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/c...

A.I. Is Poised to Revolutionize Weather Forecasting. A New Tool Shows Promise.

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Reposted by Matthew MacLeod

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · May 19

Proud to be a part of this important work.

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Gaps in public trust between scientists and climate scientists: a 68 country study - IOPscienceSearch

Gaps in public trust between scientists and climate scientists: a 68 country study, Ghasemi, Omid, Cologna, Viktoria, Mede, Niels G, Stanley, Samantha K, Strahm, Noel, Ross, Robert, Alfano, Mark, Kerr, John R, Marques, Mathew D, Berger, Sebastian, Besley, John C, Brick, Cameron, Joubert, Marina, Maibach, Edward, Mihelj, Sabina, Newell, Ben R, Oreskes, Naomi, Schäfer, Mike S

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · May 1

Good news from Britain… because markets alone arent doung the job. www.businessgreen.com/news/4413004...

'A common-sense decision': Government to make solar panels mandatory for new homes in England

Ministers expected to beef-up Future Homes Standard to ensure solar panels are installed on 99 per cent of new build homes from 2027

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Reposted by Andreas Oschlies, Colette L. Heald

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Apr 16

Thanks to EGU for this. As the saying goes, either we hang together, or surely we shall hang separately:
www.egu.eu/news/1294/th...

The European Geosciences Union expresses its support for its fellow American scientific societies

EGU stands behind our sibling American scientific societies, providing our support for them and all their members in the face of recent changes to US scientific policy.

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Reposted by Tina van de Flierdt

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Apr 14

The drafters of the Clean Air Act saw CO2 as a pollutant yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/the-...

The drafters of the Clean Air Act saw CO2 as a pollutant » Yale Climate Connections

Climate change and carbon dioxide came up regularly in ‘60s-era Congressional hearings, a team of Harvard historians has found.

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Reposted by Colette L. Heald

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Apr 3

I dont agree that broadly Harvard has “elevated identity over excellence in the selection of students and faculty…” On the contrary, that’s what Harvard did in the past when it exclude women, Jews, & people of color.
But I think the rest of this is largely correct.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Opinion | Lawrence Summers: Harvard Must Not Yield to Trump

As with most confrontations, the merits in this clash are not one sided. But the Trump administration is acting in bad faith.

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Reposted by Glenn D. Rudebusch

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Mar 14

In the San Francisco Bay area? Please join me at the Mills Institute Northeastern for the Russell Leadership Lecture. Free and open to the public. Talking about about #diversity; now more than ever.
millsinstitute.northeastern.edu/events/russe...

Russell Women in Science Leadership Lecture presents Naomi Oreskes - The Mills Institute

Join us for a lecture with Naomi Oreskes. Naomi is a Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Dr. Oreskes w...

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Reposted by Louis Moresi, Brian Medeiros

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Feb 5

Hey scientists. Now would be a good time to revisit @csldf.org guidance on on-line communication.
www.csldf.org/resource/poc...

A Pocket Guide for Scientists: Safeguarding Online Communications - Climate Science Legal Defense Fund

This guide helps researchers understand how to best express their personal views and engage in activism online.

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