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I remember just being mortified by that, she said.
So she set about writing what she thought would be a short paper to correct the record.
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Her paper ballooned into an 124-page analysis, soon to be published in the journal Ecology Law Quarterly.
And its only part one of the findings.
Almost everyone has completely forgotten about NAPCA, if they ever even knew it existed, Oreskes said.
Ominous warnings of climate change had also reached the wider public.
It was shown to almost 5 million children in classrooms across the country.
The Oreskes paper aims to provide the history and context that the courts major questions doctrine seems to require.
Why has so much of this history been overlooked?
Oreskes pointed to the general historical amnesia of Americans.
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