NCSE is delighted to congratulate Richard Alley on receiving the Climate Communications Prize and Naomi Oreskes on receiving the Ambassador Award from the American Geophysical Union.
The Climate Communications Prize "highlights the importance of promoting scientific literacy, clarity of message, and efforts to foster respect and understanding of science-based values as they relate to the implications of climate change," while the Ambassador Award honors "outstanding contributions to the following area(s): societal impact, service to the Earth and space community, scientific leadership, and promotion of talent/career pool," according to the AGU.
Alley is the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University and the author of The Two-Mile Time Machine (2000) and Earth: The Operator's Manual (2011). 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).
Both Alley and Oreskes are previous recipients of NCSE's Friend of the Planet Award, Alley in 2014 and Oreskes in 2015.