Talks and Presentations - 2011 to 2016
List of talks 2011 to 2016
12 December 2016: AGU Fall Meeting
John Cook presented a talk A Brief of History of Consensus (PPT 6.8Mb), outlining the misinformation campaign against consensus, the studies quantifying the level of scientific agreement and how to neutralise misinformation.
28 October 2016: Conference on climate denial
The world s first research conference on climate denial was held at Linköping University, in the city of Norrköping, Sweden. I recorded a video talk for this conference (here are the Powerpoint slides for this talk).
27 June 2016: Royal Society of Tasmania Winter Series lecture
At the University of Tasmania, John Cook presented the 2016 Royal Society of Tasmania Winter Series lecture on The psychology of climate science denial , chaired by Her Excellency Kate Warner, Governor of Tasmania.
Talks and Presentations
1 April 2021: Skeptical Inquirer - Gaming against Misinformation
John Cook gave a webinar for the Skeptical Inquirer about using gamification and cartoons to overcome some of the psychological hurdles facing scientists and educators as they respond to misinformation. Learn about a number of psychological challenges which hinder the countering of misinformation and science denial and how gamification offers a unique opportunity to convert effortful critical thinking tasks into quicker, easier heuristics. In this presentation, John Cook outlines how he applied psychological and critical thinking research into inoculation and how his Cranky Uncle game can help with the task.
Some economists say that meeting the goals of the Paris agreement will make global poverty worse. But that argument ignores some stark realities.
By Sara Peach | Thursday, March 4, 2021
As sea levels rise and storms grow more extreme, people living in low-lying Bangladesh face worsening floods. In response to the risks of climate change, Bangladesh’s parliament unanimously passed a motion declaring a “planetary emergency” in November 2019. (Photo credit: UK Department for International Development / Flickr)
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ear Sara,
My brother says that some economists have taken the view that 3 degrees Celsius is the most reasonable target for warming, and that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would just make the world poorer.
Two related, but contrasting, items on Brexit.
The climate change connection to Brexit is unclear and mostly negative. It is simply true that we benefit from international unity when addressing a global problem, and the EU is a powerful forward looking entity that could address climate change more effectively than the collection of individual nations in the EU otherwise might. With the UK out of the EU, AGW may be somewhat harder to address.
Or, maybe not so much. The EU is still only one entity among several dozen, so having this small shift may not be that big of a deal.
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Today, I ll be connecting the dots between climate change and many of the other pressing issues facing the world today. And I ll make the case that acting on climate helps to fix each and every one of these issues people care about
at the same time.
First, a little perspective.
It is an era. - Alex Steffen
That s because our climate is the context in which
everything else takes place. We rely on it for everything.
And these irreversible changes being set in motion will impact our descendants and all life on earth for thousands of years.
What I m trying to say here is this: if we get climate wrong, nothing else will be right.