# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-c-mooney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:07:30.854Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-c-mooney"
name: "Chris C. Mooney"
slug: "chris-c-mooney"
description: "Christopher Cole Mooney is an American journalist, professor at the University of Virginia and author of four books including The Republican War on Science (2005). Mooney's writing focuses on subjects such as climate change denialism and creationism in public schools, and he has been described as \"one of the few journalists in the country who specialize in the now dangerous intersection of science and politics.\" In 2020 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on global warming published in The Washington Post."
tagline: "American environmental journalist (1977–)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CSICON_2011-Chris_Mooney.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1977-09-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.076458666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/chriscmooney"
    handle:    "chriscmooney"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/chriscmooney"
    handle:    "chriscmooney"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.chriscmooney.com/"
sources:
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    title: "کریس موونی (ژورنالیست)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كريس موني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "كريس مونى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chris_Mooney"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Mooney_(journalist)"
    title: "Chris Mooney (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump