Harvard Science Historian Naomi Oreskes to Deliver a Talk on Climate Change

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Harvard University Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Naomi Oreskes will deliver the third annual Pauline Newman ’47 Distinguished Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society. Oreskes’s talk, “Climate Change: What Next?” will draw from her extensive research. A world-renowned historian of science, she is the author of over 100 scholarly and popular books, articles, and opinion pieces. Her 2004 essay "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change," cited by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth (2006), led to op-ed pieces and to Congressional testimony in the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.  Her books have been translated into nine languages, and she has won numerous prizes and awards. This event is free and open to the public.