Posted: 8/2/2014
Trigger
Just read the review “Destination: Doom Professor’s novella imagines a world done in by climate change” about Prof. Naomi Oreskes (Harvard Professor of the History of Science) latest book titled “The Collapse of Western Civilization”.
“In crafting their cautionary tale, Oreskes and co-author Erik Conway of the California Institute of Technology relied heavily on scientific predictions of what is likely to happen by the turn of the century should the world not pick up the pace in responding to climate change.”
A Professor On A Mission
I would claim she is certainly no scientist, but she is a professor at one of the elite universities of the U.S.
Her infamous article “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change” (Science 306: 1686, published in 2004) has been widely cited and recited, but it has long been debunked.
In 2010 she published a book titled “Merchants of Doubt” wherein she tackled the alleged links between the tobacco wars and climate change denial as if these two were easily comparable.
A Culmination Of Alarmism And Panic Mongering
This would be my summary of this book (I admit, I never read it)! Her modus operandi is the louder and shriller the more attention.
The professor is a wannabe Cassandra!
Students beware, save your money!
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