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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Stephan Lewandowsky, Halley E. Froehlich

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Thought provoking piece by my colleague #Charlie Tyson
www.chronicle.com/article/can-...
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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Sonia I. Seneviratne, John Hogan, James Connelly

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Scott C. Doney, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Rosie A. Fisher , and 1 more

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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.
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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: David Lazer

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Wolfgang Crämer, Silvia Secchi

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Scott C. Doney

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Duke University Press to Launch Anthropocene History in October 2026
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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Daniel Aaron, Alan Richardson

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Our latest:

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Paul Lehmann

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Joanna Bryson

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This summary is a bit off. I suggest people read the original paper:
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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Joanna Bryson

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Katharine Hayhoe, Thomas Backhaus, Dana R. Fisher , and 2 more

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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/...
Regulations.gov
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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Katharine Hayhoe, Dana R. Fisher

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Steven French

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Du Toit

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Mark Petticrew, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Tuomas Mattila

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Mike S. Schäfer, Hugo Mercier

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Sabine Pahl

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Matthew MacLeod

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Olaf Weber

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Andreas Oschlies, Colette L. Heald

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Tina van de Flierdt

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Colette L. Heald

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Glenn D. Rudebusch

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Louis Moresi, Brian Medeiros

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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Aradhna Krishna

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