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Verification, Validation, and Confirmation of Numerical Models in the Earth Sciences
- N. Oreskes, K. Shrader-Frechette, K. Belitz
- GeologyScience
- 4 February 1994
Verification and validation of numerical models of natural systems is impossible. This is because natural systems are never closed and because model results are always nonunique. Models can be…
The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene
- C. Waters, J. Zalasiewicz, A. P. Wolfe
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 8 January 2016
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The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
- N. Oreskes
- Political ScienceScience
- 3 December 2004
Policy-makers and the public who are not members of the relevant research community have had to form opinions about the reality of global climate change on the basis of often conflicting descriptions…
Geological characteristics and tectonic setting of proterozoic iron oxide (CuUAuREE) deposits
- M. Hitzman, N. Oreskes, M. Einaudi
- Geology
- 1 October 1992
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
- N. Oreskes, E. Conway
- Education
- 3 June 2010
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark…
Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming
- J. Cook, N. Oreskes, K. Rice
- Environmental Science
- 13 April 2016
The consensus that humans are causing recent global warming is shared by 90%–100% of publishing climate scientists according to six independent studies by co-authors of this paper. Those results are…
Origin of rare earth element-enriched hematite breccias at the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, Roxby Downs, South Australia
- N. Oreskes, M. Einaudi
- Geology
- 1 February 1990
Hematite breccias, the host rocks to Cu-U-Au-Ag ore at the Olympic Dam deposit, occur as steeply dipping, northwest-striking, dikelike bodies within fractured granite. The breccia complex has a…
When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal
- J. Zalasiewicz, C. Waters, N. Oreskes
- Environmental Science
- 5 October 2015
Climate change prediction: Erring on the side of least drama?
- Keynyn Brysse, N. Oreskes, J. O’Reilly, M. Oppenheimer
- Environmental Science
- 1 February 2013
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