NCSE is delighted to congratulate Naomi Oreskes on receiving the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication for 2016. Presented by Climate One, a project of the Commonwealth Club of California, the award is "given to a natural or social scientist who has made extraordinary scientific contributions and communicated that knowledge to a broad public in a clear and compelling fashion."
Ben Santer, a member of the award jury as well as a member of NCSE's board of directors, commented in a July 13, 2016, press release, "Oreskes is one of the world's pre-eminent historians of science," adding, "Her 2004 Science paper ["The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change"] helped to quantify, for the first time, the broad scientific consensus on climate change. Her recent research unmasked the forces behind denial of human effects on climate and improved our chances of having a responsible, science-based discussion of climate change solutions."
A professor of the history of science at Harvard University, Oreskes is the author, with Erik M. Conway, of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming (2010). Her previous honors include the 2009 Francis Bacon Medal for scholarship in the history of science and technology, the 2011 Climate Change Communicator of the Year, and NCSE's Friend of the Planet Award in 2015.