Naomi Oreskes is an internationally renowned earth scientist, science historian, and author of both scholarly and popular books and articles on the history of earth and environmental science.
Her authored or coauthored books include: The Rejection of Continental Drift (1999), Plate Tectonics: An Insider’s History of the Modern Theory of the Earth (2001), Merchants of Doubt (2010), The Collapse of Western Civilization (2014), Discerning Experts (2019), Why Trust Science? (2019), and Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean (2021).
Oreskes has been a leading voice on the science and politics of anthropogenic climate change. Her 2004 essay “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change” — the first peer-reviewed paper to document the scientific consensus on this crucial issue — has been cited more than 2500 times. It was featured in the landmark Royal Society publication “A Guide to Facts and Fictions about Climate Change" and in the Academy Award–winning film An Inconvenient Truth. Her 2010 book, Merchants of Doubt (coauthored with Erik M. Conway), has been translated into nine languages and made into a documentary film produced by Participant Media and distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.
In 2018 Oreskes was named a Guggenheim Fellow for a book project with Conway, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. It will be released by Bloomsbury Press in February 2023.