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Patrick Michaels
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Research professor of environmental sciences, University of Virginia Cato Fellow

Dr. Patrick Michaels is a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, CATO Institute Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, and visiting scientist with the Marshall Institute in Washington, D.C. 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. He 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.

Michaels is a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 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 has appeared on ABC, NPR's "All Things Considered," PBS, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC and Voice of America. According to Nature magazine, Pat Michaels may be the most popular lecturer in the nation on the subject of global warming.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Environment
  • Clean Air Act
  • Global Warming
  • Environmental health
  • Environmental Law and Regulation
  • Pollution

Articles by Patrick Michaels
Global Warming Not Featured in New Hurricane Study
16 Mar 2006
Think the newspapers won't feature it?
Antarctic Ice: The Cold Truth
03 Mar 2006
SciencExpress reports that Antarctica has been losing large amounts of ice mass over the past three years. What gives?
Ice Storm
17 Feb 2006
What to make of Greenland's melting glaciers.
A Current Affair
02 Dec 2005
New research raises a question: Is there a long-term trend in the thermohaline circulation?
How Much Ice in the Global Cocktail?
04 Nov 2005
One of the great fears generated by global warming is that the ocean is about to rise and swallow our coasts. Will it?
Will 2005 Set a Record For Warmth? Does It Matter?
14 Oct 2005
This year will further establish that the rate at which temperatures have been rising during the past 30 years or so has been remarkably constant.
Global Warming and Hurricanes: Still No Connection
16 Sep 2005
What a new paper in Science does and does not tell us about hurricanes and global warming.
Stepping up the Pressure
21 Jun 2005
The all-out, last-ditch effort by global warming alarmists to find any excuse to compel the US to take action.
James Hansen's Increasing Insensitivity
29 Apr 2005
It seems that the longer NASA scientist Jim Hansen studies the climate, the more insensitive he, or should we say, his interpretation of the climate, becomes.
The Tip of the Iceberg
25 Apr 2005
Yet another predictable distortion.
How the West Was Wet
11 Apr 2005
Understanding western drought and global warming.
Conjecture vs. Science
30 Mar 2005
Are the editors of Science are more interested in conjecture than in firm scientific findings?
New England's Hot Flashes
28 Mar 2005
Variability and change is an inherent characteristic of the climate of New England.
Settling Global Warming Science
12 Aug 2004
Three bombshell papers show that the 'skeptics' have won.
How Now, Brown Cloud?
19 Aug 2002
The U.N. should stop hyping pseudo-science in support of inefficient, dirty governments.