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Patrick J. Michaels is the director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Michaels 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. He was a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for 30 years. Michaels was a contributing author and is a 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 worldwide. He is the author or editor of six books on climate and its impact, and 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 AB and SM degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago, and he received a PhD in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1979.
No Matter How Much Tom Steyer Spends, Florida Isn’t Buying Climate Disaster
WatchDog.org. November 3, 2014.
The Unintended Consequences of the American Way of Science
Investor’s Business Daily. September 26, 2014.
Barack Obama, the King of Climate Change
Washington Times. August 31, 2014.
The Adaptive Response of Salmon to Global Warming
November 5, 2014.
Last Gasp of a Dinosaur?
November 4, 2014.
You Ought to Have a Look: National Landmarks, Copious Food, Fingerprints, and Satellites
October 31, 2014.
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.
Climate Change, Heat Waves, and Adaptation
AGU Science Policy Conference. June 17, 2014.
Policy Implications of Climate Models on the Verge of Failure
Science Policy Conference of the American Geophysical Union. Summer 2013.
Addendum: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Cato.org. October 31, 2012.
Preliminary Affordability Determination — Energy Efficiency Standards
Public Comments. May 29, 2014.
Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Automatic Ice Makers
Public Comments. May 15, 2014.
Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New Stationary Sources
Public Comments. May 9, 2014.
The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future
Cato Journal. Winter 2014.
Climate Data vs. Climate M
