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United Nations • Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.

Answering Climate Change Skeptics, Naomi Oreskes

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A presentation based off of her recent book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscure the Truth about Climate Change. Naomi Oreskes, author and professor of history and science studies, University of California, San Diego. From the University of Rhode Island's Spring 2010 Vetlesen Lecture Series, People and Planet Global Environmental Change. March 2, 2010. Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/CCE2/ ...more
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Introduction

0:00

Thank you

2:34

John Tyndall

4:28

Spontaneous

5:17

Calendar

5:50

Keeling Curve

6:19

Climate Change History

7:43

When Will Climate Change Happen

10:40

The Surprising Answer

11:26

The Second Assessment Report

13:20

How do scientists weigh evidence

14:17

How do we know its not the sun

15:58

How do we know carbon dioxide doesnt come from volcanoes

18:37

How similar these questions always work

20:59

Where were people getting all the sceptical misinformation

21:44

Theres always uncertainty

22:39

Merchants of Doubt

23:51

Summary

25:37

The Three Principal Players

26:51

The Marshall Institute

27:46

The Cigarette Century

30:19

Environmental Extremism

31:07

Doubt mongering

33:37

The tobacco industry

35:12

Why did we fall for it

35:38

More realistic view of science

37:41

The bill

38:10

Decision theory explains

40:37

Science does not provide certainty

42:12

Research does not provide proof

43:50

When did science begin

46:18

What do we do

49:27

Trust

51:30
Answering Climate Change Skeptics, Naomi Oreskes
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A presentation based off of her recent book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscure the Truth about Climate Change. Naomi Oreskes, author and professor of history and science studies, University of California, San Diego. From the University of Rhode Island's Spring 2010 Vetlesen Lecture Series, People and Planet Global Environmental Change. March 2, 2010. Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/CCE2/

Follow along using the transcript.

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