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Patrick J. Michaels
Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies
Patrick J. Michaels is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. Michaels was also a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for thirty years. Michaels is a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. His writing has been published in the major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science, as well as in popular serials such as the Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, and Journal of Commerce. He was an author of the climate "paper of the year" awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004. He has appeared on most of the worldwide major media. Michaels holds A.B. and S.M. degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago, and he received a Ph.D. in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1979.
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E-Mail: pmichaels@cato.org
Books and Book Chapters
"Global Warming and Climate Change," Chapter 45 of the Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th edition.
Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know (2009), by Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr.
Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media (2004)
The Satanic Gases (2000)
Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming (1992)
Cato Studies
"Is the Sky Really Falling? A Review of Recent Global Warming Scare Stories," Policy Analysis no. 576, August 23, 2006.
"Review of the 2001 U.S. Climate Action Report," White Paper, June 3, 2002.
"Long Hot Year: Latest Science Debunks Global Warming Hysteria," Policy Analysis no. 329, December 31, 1998.
"The Consequences of Kyoto," Policy Analysis no. 307, May 7, 1998.
Articles and Newsletters
"Scientific Shortcomings in the EPA's Endangerment Finding from Greenhouse Gases," by Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger, Cato Journal, Fall 2009.
"Shaky Science: Inconvenient Truths Ignored by EPA in Its Proposal to Regulate Carbon Dioxide Emissions", December 22, 2008.
Trends in Precipitation on the Wettest Days of the Year across the Contiguous United States. International Journal of Climatology 24, pp. 1873-1882, 2004.
A Test of Corrections for Extraneous Signals in Gridded Surface Temperature Data. Climate Research 26, pp. 159-174, 2004.
Decadal Changes in Summer Mortality in U.S. Cities. International Journal of Biometeorology 47, pp. 166-175, 2003.
Opinion and Commentary
"The Climategate Whitewash Continues," The Wall Street Journal, July 12, 2010
"Bam's Climate Rx: All Pain, No Gain," New York Post, June 21, 2010
"Rahming Through a Lame Duck Climate Bill?," TownHall.com, June 16, 2010
"More Political Climate Science," TownHall.com, June 6, 2010
"The Global-Warming Tax," National Review (Online), April 22, 2010
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"Is That Quacking I Hear?," June 16, 2010
"Kerry and Lieberman Unveil Their Climate Bill: Such a Deal!," May 12, 2010
"UN Climate Official Steps In It, Then Aside ," February 18, 2010
"Obama Commands the Impossible," February 4, 2010
"Copenhagen Agreement Is Just More Hot Air," December 18, 2009
Events
"The Great Debate: Can Smart Growth Cost-Effectively Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?," December 3, 2009 [Policy Forum]
"Climate Change, Copenhagen, and Congress," November 5, 2009 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009," April 30, 2009 [City Seminar]
"Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know," March 12, 2009 [Book Forum]
"Climate of Extremes: The Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know," January 28, 2009 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
Speeches and Testimony
Climate Crisis: National Security, Economic, and Public Health Threats, Testimony, February 12, 2009.
Multimedia
Patrick J. Michaels discusses the heat waves on WIBC's Garrison July 27, 2010 [Flash Audio, 14:36]
Patrick J. Michaels discusses his Climategate WSJ op-ed on NPR's Marketplace July 15, 2010 [Flash Audio, 04:34]
Patrick J. Michaels discusses the climate change debate on WBAL's The Ron Smith Show June 21, 2010 [Flash Audio, 11:39]
Patrick J. Michaels discusses the climate change debate on TRN's The Savage Nation June 21, 2010 [Flash Audio, 07:10]
Patrick J. Michaels discusses the climate bill on FOX's Your World With Neil Cavuto June 16, 2010 [Flash Video, 03:13]
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