About the Author

Chris Mooney is senior correspondent for The American Prospect magazine and author of two books, the New York Times bestselling The Republican War on Science—dubbed "a landmark in contemporary political reporting" by Salon.com and a "well-researched, closely argued and amply referenced indictment of the right wing's assault on science and scientists" by Scientific American—and Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming—dubbed "riveting" by the Boston Globe and selected as a 2007 best book of the year in the science category by Publisher's Weekly. His shorter writings have been nominated for a National Magazine Award and included in the volumes Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006. Mooney was also named one of Wired magazine's top ten "sexiest geeks."

Mooney is an accomplished public speaker, having given numerous public lectures at distinguished universities including the Harvard Medical School, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Rockefeller University, and Duke University Medical Center; at major venues such as the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco and Town Hall Seattle; and at bookstores across the country, ranging from Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida to Powell's in Portland, Oregon.

In 2007 alone, Mooney was the keynote speaker at the 12th Annual Ocean Gala Benefit by San Diego Coastkeeper, the opening plenary speaker at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Melbourne, Australia, and keynote speaker at the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C. He was the Provost's Lecture at Cornell University, speaking on the topic of "The War on Science: What Have We Learned?" and was a lecturer at the Alabama Perspectives on Sustainability and Climate Change meeting at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa.

Mooney has also been featured regularly by the national media. He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CSPAN's BookTV, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NPR's Science Friday, and The Al Franken Show, among many other television and radio programs. He lives in Los Angeles where he enjoys running and trying to drive as little as possible.