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CA Prof Sheds New Light on Politics of Global Warming

Tomas Castelazo at Wikimedia Commons under a GNU Free Documentation license.)Naomi Oreskes, one of the champions of sound science on climate change, has done it again, piercing through the veil of skeptic-speak and public misinformation to reveal another insight into the politics of global warming.

Oreskes, you might recall, is the University of California, San Diego professor of history and science studies who thoroughly discredited the argument that there’s yet no scientific consensus on climate change. Her 2004 analysis of 928 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 1993 and 2003 found that not one author disputed the consensus that Earth’s climate is changing.

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