John Cook (scientist)

John Cook in 2011

John Cook (born January 25, 1972 ) is an Australian cognitive scientist . He gained notoriety through founding the Skeptical Science website and through scientific work to quantify the scientific consensus on man-made global warming .

Professional background

Cook acquired at the age of 20 years a university degree in Physics ( Bachelor of Science ) at the University of Queensland in Australia. The following years were marked by various positions in the private sector as a programmer, illustrator and graphic designer. In 2016 he did his doctorate at the School of Psychology at the University of Western Australia in the subject of Cognitive Psychology ( Doctor of Philosophy ) with the thesis "Closing the 'consensus gap' by communicating the scientific consensus on climate change and countering misinformation" (German: Das Closing the “consensus gap” by communicating the scientific consensus on climate change and countering misinformation). He is currently a research assistant professor at the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University .

Act

In addition to creating the Skeptical Science website , he is also the author of several books and co-author of several scientific publications. His work Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature was scientifically cited more than 1000 times by July 2019 and cited by then US President Barack Obama as evidence of the consensus in science on the topic of global warming. This work was honored as best paper in 2013 by the journal Environmental Research Letters .

In July 2019, this study exceeded downloads more than a million times, making it the most downloaded paper of all of IOP Publishing's 80+ scientific journals, according to the authors .

Together with the team of Skeptical Science, he received the from in 2011 Australian Museum awarded Eureka Prize for his efforts to explain climate change and to spread the knowledge about it.

Selected publications

Books

• Haydn Washington, John Cook: Climate Change Denial. Heads in the sand . Earthscan 2011, ISBN 978-1849713368 .
• G. Thomas Farmer, John Cook: Climate Change Science. A modern synthesis. Volume 1 - The Physical Climate . Dordrecht 2013, ISBN 978-94-007-5757-8 .
• Daniel Bedford, John Cook: Climate Change: Examining the Facts . ABC-Clio 2016, ISBN 978-1440835681 .

Journal paper

• John Cook et al .: Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence . In: PLOS ONE . tape 12 , no. 5 , 2017, doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0175799 .
• John Cook et al .: Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming . In: Environmental Research Letters . tape 11 , no. 4 , 2016, doi : 10.1088 / 1748-9326 / 11/4/048002 .
• John Cook et al .: Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature . In: Environmental Research Letters . tape 8 , 2013, doi : 10.1088 / 1748-9326 / 8/2/024024 .
• Stephan Lewandowsky et al .: Misinformation and Its Correction. Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing . In: Psychological Science in the Public Interest . tape 13 , no. 3 , 2012, p. 106-131 , doi : 10.1177 / 1529100612451018 .

Web links

• John Cook , Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University
• John Cook , University of Queensland
• Team website at SkepticalScience.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} CV on skepticalscience.com . Secured by Wayback Machine on November 5th, 2019.
2. ↑ Dissertation on skepticalscience.com . Secured by Wayback Machine on November 5th, 2019
3. ↑ ^{a b} Skeptical Science Team . Retrieved June 29, 2017.
4. ^ ^{A b List of} publications by John Cook at Google Scholar . Last accessed on July 24, 2019.
5. ↑ 'No doubt left' about scientific consensus on global warming, say experts . In: The Guardian , July 24, 2019. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
6. ↑ Eureka Prices 2011 ( Memento from January 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Australian Museum