Naomi Oreskes

In the book “Merchants of Doubt,” authors Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway discuss how the Republicans argue that there is no scientific consensus on climate change and that they try to present the issue as an ongoing scientific debate, when actually it’s a political one. The Republicans refer to the environmentalists…

The peer review I received prompted me to rethink and revise the arguments I make in my essay. The reviewer didn’t find anything inherently wrong with my arguments, she just advised I could maybe expand on some of the evidence I used to support my claims. I took her advice and tried to elaborate on my ideas in hopes of better supporting my essay. Essay 2 Margaret Atwood uses Oryx and Crake to illustrate the horrifying future of what society can turn into if we continue to ignore the planet’s…

Dunlap, Riley E., and Aaron M. McCright. "Organized Climate Change Denial." The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. Ed. John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, and David Schlosberg. Oxford, U.K. ; New York: Oxford UP, 2011. 144-160. Print. Oxford Handbooks. The tenth chapter of the book, The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, is titled “Organized Climate Change Denial”, and was written by Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright. In this chapter they argue that much of corporate…

climate scientists declare that the earth is warming up, and it is mainly a result of human activity. Tuttle disagrees with the scientific consensus on climate change. He provides various scientific studies in his article. A study conducted by Naomi Oreskes, a professor at university of California- San Diego, indicated…

The Paris Act held in Paris in November 2015, seems to quite the worries of many, about the dramatic issue of climate change, while scientists like James Hansen, a researcher on atmospheric physics at NASA that contributed significantly to the discovery global warming, depicts the Paris agreement as a “Fraud, a fake” (The Guardian, Dec.12, 2015). The Paris Act should theoretically represent an agreement, although in reality, there is no real agreement on measures, procedures and timing, in…

Who was Alfred Wegener? Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin, Germany on November 1, 1880. He was a meteorologist (a person who studies the atmosphere and its weather (Meteorology, n.d.)) and geologist (a person who studies about the Earth’s history through rocks, layers of soil, etc. (Geology, n.d.)). In the early twentieth century, Wegener championed the continental drift theory. In 1904, he attended University of Berlin, where is he studied natural sciences also, received his doctorate in…