This site contains information regarding issues related to Dr. Naomi Oreskes and Dr. William Nierenberg.  The particular focus is on the paper "From Chicken Little to Dr. Pangloss."  For more context on my views on these issues please read an introduction from my blog.  My entire blog on this subject can be found here.  It also provides an opportunity for comments which I welcome.

The following is a peer reviewed paper which refutes the conclusions of Oreskes et al.  It is presented here by permission of the UC Press. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Vol. 40, Number 3, pps. 318–349. ISSN 1939-1811, electronic
ISSN 1939-182X. © 2010 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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Because the form of our peer reviewed paper doesn't allow for a direct point by point refutation of Oreskes we have also written a direct rebuttal to "Chicken Little" as well as to "Sowing the seeds of doubt: acid" rain which is the third chapter of Oreskes' non peer-reviewed book Merchants of Doubt.  This highlights the errors, omissions, and outright falsehoods that are present in those articles.  This article was written in June 2015 at the request of the New York Times in conjunction with an article about Naomi Oreskes.  A link to it appears in that story.


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The Sunday Times ran  an article loosely based on "Chicken Little" by Drs. Oreskes and Renouf.  Based on our complaint they were forced to run a correction.  In addition they posted a rebuttal which we provided.  However they chose to edit that rebuttal citing legal issues in the UK.  We didn't particularly want to fight with them about that, so instead you can read our original rebuttal here.

William Connolley who is hardly a skeptic has concluded that Oreskes was flat wrong.  

We encourage anyone who is trying to get to the truth of the carbon dioxide committee issues to review original National Academy report.  The final report of the OSTP acid rain committee  is here.