Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: Naomi Oreskes

In this chapter Naomi Oreskes, Professor at the University of San Diego, gives an analysis of climate change science based on her extensive evaluation of the literature.  She argues that the science community ended controversy over human-generated global warming in or around 2004.  The popular opinion in the U.S., she notes, lags behind the science, with much of the population continuing to express doubts and reservations.