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Naomi Oreskes: "The Denial of Global Warming"
LANCASTER, Pa. - Science historian Naomi Oreskes, the provost of UC San Diego's Sixth College, will discuss "The Denial of Global Warming" on Monday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Bonchek Lecture Hall, Barshinger Life Sciences and Philosophy Building. The talk, sponsored by the Center for Liberal Arts and Society, and the Bonchek Institute for Reason and Science in a Liberal Democracy, is free and open to the public.
A professor of History and Science Studies and a member of the UC San Diego faculty since 1998, Oreskes is known for her seminal work dealing with the science of climate change, specifically on the societal framing and reception of the scientific consensus on global warming. Her 2004 study, "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change," which appeared in the journal Science, led to numerous citations in a variety of national and international news media outlets. Her research, which was also referenced in the academy-award winning film, "An Inconvenient Truth," documented a scholarly consensus on two points: The earth is warming and humans are the cause.
Oreskes' research focuses on the historical development of scientific knowledge, methods, and practices in the earth and environmental sciences. She has held grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society, and is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
From 2003-2006, Oreskes served as director of UC San Diego's Science Studies Program. She has also served as co-chair of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women and is a member of the UCSD Center for the Humanities Executive Committee and the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation.
Oreskes has published numerous journal articles, opinion pieces and books. Currently, she is nearing completion on Science on a Mission: American Oceanography in the Cold War and Beyond and is at work on a new book, Challenging Knowledge: How the American People Have Been Misled about Global Warming.
She is also the author of The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science (Oxford University Press, 1999). Her edited volume, Plate Tectonics: An Insider’s History of the Modern Theory of the Earth (with Homer Le Grand, Westview Press, 2001) was cited by Library Journal as one of the best science and technology books of 2002 and by Choice as an outstanding academic title of 2003.
Prior to joining UC San Diego, Oreskes held professorships at Dartmouth College and New York University. In 2001, she was a visiting professor in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. She has also worked as a consultant to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Oreskes received her Ph.D. in Geological Research and History of Science from Stanford University and a B.Sc. in Mining Geology from The Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, at the University of London.
A professor of History and Science Studies and a member of the UC San Diego faculty since 1998, Oreskes is known for her seminal work dealing with the science of climate change, specifically on the societal framing and reception of the scientific consensus on global warming. Her 2004 study, "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change," which appeared in the journal Science, led to numerous citations in a variety of national and international news media outlets. Her research, which was also referenced in the academy-award winning film, "An Inconvenient Truth," documented a scholarly consensus on two points: The earth is warming and humans are the cause.
Oreskes' research focuses on the historical development of scientific knowledge, methods, and practices in the earth and environmental sciences. She has held grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society, and is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
From 2003-2006, Oreskes served as director of UC San Diego's Science Studies Program. She has also served as co-chair of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women and is a member of the UCSD Center for the Humanities Executive Committee and the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation.
Oreskes has published numerous journal articles, opinion pieces and books. Currently, she is nearing completion on Science on a Mission: American Oceanography in the Cold War and Beyond and is at work on a new book, Challenging Knowledge: How the American People Have Been Misled about Global Warming.
She is also the author of The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science (Oxford University Press, 1999). Her edited volume, Plate Tectonics: An Insider’s History of the Modern Theory of the Earth (with Homer Le Grand, Westview Press, 2001) was cited by Library Journal as one of the best science and technology books of 2002 and by Choice as an outstanding academic title of 2003.
Prior to joining UC San Diego, Oreskes held professorships at Dartmouth College and New York University. In 2001, she was a visiting professor in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. She has also worked as a consultant to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Oreskes received her Ph.D. in Geological Research and History of Science from Stanford University and a B.Sc. in Mining Geology from The Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, at the University of London.
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