Climate Change Chat for Realists with Dr. John Cook
Channel: Climate Change Chat for Realists
Date: 2021-12-10

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"Cranky Uncle" phone app:
Website: https://crankyuncle.com

John Cook is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Climate Change Communication Research Hub at Monash University. His research focus is understanding and countering misinformation about climate change, with an emphasis on using critical thinking to build resilience. In 2007, he founded Skeptical Science, a website that won the 2011 Australia Museum Eureka Prize for the Advancement of Climate Change Knowledge. He co-authored the college textbooks Climate Change: Examining the Facts and Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis, as well as the book Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand. In 2020, he published the book Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change applying critical thinking, inoculation research, and cartoons to engage and educate readers about climate misinformation. He recently released the Cranky Uncle game with the U.S. creative agency Autonomy, combining critical thinking, cartoons, and gamification to build players’ resilience against misinformation.