Patrick Michaels

Patrick J. Michaels ( * February 15, 1950 ) is an American climatologist, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and professor emeritus in the field of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia.

Michaels was president of the American Association of State Climatologists and Head of the Committee for Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. He is a former co-author and reviewer of expertise reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Michael studied biology and plant ecology at the University of Chicago and received his PhD in 1979 in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

In the controversy over global warming it is one of the skeptics that believe that man-made global warming is not particularly serious, and in some areas even positive. He has published on the subject in addition to scientific publications, a number of popular science books and is a regular participant in the American mass media.

The co-authored by him World Climate Report is published by the non-profit organization Greening Earth Society, which in turn was founded by the Western Fuels Association.

Critics say the climate skepticism for Michaels is " quite lucrative business " has become. One of his studies was co-financed with about $ 98,000 from the General Association of German coal industry.

Publications (excerpt)

Publications

  • P. J. Michaels, S.F. Singer, P. C. Knappenberger, J. B. Kerr, C.T. McElroy: Analyzing ultraviolet -B radiation - is there a trend?. In: Science. 264, No. 5163, 1994, pp. 1341-1343. doi: 10.1126/science.264.5163.1341.
  • Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. Knappenberger: Human effect on global climate? . In: Nature. 384, No. 6609, 1996, pp. 522-523. doi: 10.1038/384522b0.
  • Patrick J. Michaels, Robert C. Balling Jr., Paul C. Knappenberger: Analysis of trends in the variability of daily and monthly historical temperature measurements. (PDF) In: Climate Research. 10, 1998, pp. 27-33. doi: 10.3354/cr010027.
  • Robert E. Davis, Paul C. Knappenberger, Wendy M. Novicoff, Patrick J. Michaels: Decadal changes in heat -related human mortality in the eastern United States. (PDF) In: Climate Research. 22, 2002, pp. 175-184. doi: 10.3354/cr022175.
  • R. E. Davies, P. C. Knappenberger, P. J. Michaels, W. M. Novicoff: Changing Heat -Related Mortality in the United States. In: Environmental Health Perspectives. 111, 2003, doi:. 10.1289/ehp.6336.
  • Patrick J. Michaels: Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming. Cato Institute, October 1992, ISBN 0932790895, p 196
  • Patrick J. Michaels: The Satanic gas. Cato Institute, 15.5.2000, ISBN 1882577922, page 224
  • Patrick J. Michaels: Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media. Cato Institute, 25.10.2005, ISBN 1930865791, p 280
  • Patrick J. Michaels: Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming. Rowman & Littlefield, 28.12.2005, ISBN 0742549232, p 304
  • Patrick J. Michaels: Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Do not Want You to Know. Cato Institute, 25.1.2009, ISBN 1933995238, p 250
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