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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 · 17d
Wow. This is so weird. I get the anger and frustration, but for the most part the people out protesting are NOT the ones who voted for tax cuts and deregulation, and not the ones who promoted bogus recycling.

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Video: Opinion | Thanks a Lot, Boomers
Hey, boomers! Younger Americans would like a word. We’ve noticed that many of you are pretty upset about the state of the nation. And we get it. We really do. But do you ever stop and ask yourselves h...
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Reposted by Garry Peterson

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 10d
Happy, honored, humbled by this:
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Thanks 2 all friends, family, colleagues, who have supported me along the way, esp #ErikMConway &
@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @harvard.edu @harvardhistsci.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social
Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes Receives the 2025 Volvo Environment Prize
Press Release from the Volvo Environment Prize Foundation Naomi Oreskes, a world-renowned earth scientist and historian from Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2025 Volvo Environment Prize. S...
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Reposted by James M. Bullock

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 11d
My latest: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cleaning the scientific house: Rebuilding trust in science requires confronting the harms of ghostwriting
American science is under attack. Recent cuts to funding and staffing of federal agencies, layoffs of scientists, and rescission of billions of dollars in grants are unprecedented in US history and th...
www.science.org

Reposted by Cameron Brick

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 17d
TOTAL knew, and now a french court says they broke the law.
www.exxonknews.org/p/oil-giant-...
Oil giant Total’s net zero claims broke the law, court rules
The ruling is the first court judgment against an oil company for statements about its role in combatting the climate crisis.
www.exxonknews.org

Reposted by Joanna Bryson

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 17d
This is an outstanding piece. Blaming boomers is just click bait. . cepr.net/publications...
My Generation: Blame the Rich, Not the Boomers
Young people should blame the rich, not Boomers, for economic inequality as high healthcare costs, and housing issues stem from elite-driven policies.
cepr.net

Reposted by Paul Lehmann, Halley E. Froehlich, Jeroen Van Bouwel

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 18d
If you think mis- and disinformation is no big deal , read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Relative engagement with sources of climate misinformation is growing across social media platforms - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Relative engagement with sources of climate misinformation is growing across social media platforms
www.nature.com

Reposted by Daniel Hering, Neil Pederson

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 19d
Proof that climate change is real and horrible:

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat
Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.
www.bbc.com

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Catherine J. Frieman

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Oct 10
People need to read Ruth Schwarz Cowan's classic book:
hss.sas.upenn.edu/content/more...
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave | HSS | Arts & Sciences
In this classic work of women’s history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to hous...
hss.sas.upenn.edu

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Halley E. Froehlich

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Sep 30
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.
www.chronicle.com

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

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Sep 10
Congrats to @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social and colleagues for this important new paper
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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.
www.nature.com

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

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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....
blogs.law.columbia.edu

Reposted by David Lazer

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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:

www.edmunds.com/car-news/fed...
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

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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.

thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2...
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.
thetyee.ca

Reposted by Scott C. Doney

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Aug 29
www.dukeupress.edu/about/news/d...
Duke University Press to Launch Anthropocene History in October 2026
www.dukeupress.edu

Reposted by Daniel Aaron, Alan Richardson

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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.
undark.org

Reposted by Paul Lehmann

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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
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Joanna Bryson

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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...
www.pnas.org

Reposted by Joanna Bryson

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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.

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Thomas Backhaus, Dana R. Fisher , and 2 more

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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/...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Dana R. Fisher

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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.
www.npr.org

Reposted by Steven French

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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
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Du Toit

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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.
www.thenation.com

Reposted by Mark Petticrew, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Tuomas Mattila

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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…
www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Mike S. Schäfer, Hugo Mercier

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Jul 1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Sabine Pahl

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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.
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Matthew MacLeod

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · May 19
Proud to be a part of this important work.

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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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Reposted by Olaf Weber

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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
www.businessgreen.com

Reposted by Andreas Oschlies, Colette L. Heald

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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.
www.egu.eu

Reposted by Tina van de Flierdt

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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.
yaleclimateconnections.org

Reposted by Colette L. Heald

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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.
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Glenn D. Rudebusch

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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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