Patrick Michaels.jpg- Dr. Michaels is a Research Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and is the Virginia State Climatologist.
- Dr. Michaels has been President of the American Association of State Climatologists and Program Chair of the Applied Climatology Committee of the American Meteorological Society.
- Dr. Michaels has published over 200 popular and scientific articles on climate and its impact on society, including two books, Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming, published by Cato Books in 1992, and The Satanic Gases, published by Cato Books in 2000.
- He is a fellow of the Cato Institute and edits the World Climate Report, published and funded by the not-for-profit organization Greening Earth Society created by the Western Fuels Association
- According to the scientific magazine Nature, Dr. Michaels is the United States' most popular speaker on the subject of global warming.
- Michaels does not contest the basic scientific principles behind greenhouse warming and acknowledges that global mean temperature has increased in recent decades, though he is widely regarded in the media as a global warming skeptic who contends that the changes will be minor, not catastrophic, and even beneficial in many cases. He has written extensive editorials on this topic for the mass media, and for think tanks and their publications such as Regulation
- Michaels has criticised predictions of thinning of the ozone layer over the Arctic, and of increasing ultraviolet radiation reaching the surface of the earth, in the absence of a phaseout CFC emissions.
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