1. Patrick J Michaels was an American agricultural climatologist.
13 Facts About Patrick Michaels
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Patrick Michaels described policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as "Obamunism".
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Patrick Michaels wrote a number of books and papers denying or minimizing climate change.
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In 1991 and 1992, Patrick Michaels collaborated with Fred Singer in writing articles for the Washington Times rejecting the scientific consensus on ozone depletion.
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Patrick Michaels said that he does not contest the basic scientific principles behind greenhouse warming and acknowledges that the global mean temperature has increased in recent decades.
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Patrick Michaels is quoted as being skeptical of global warming, and was described by Michael E Mann as a "prominent climate change contrarian".
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Patrick Michaels made the argument that the climate feedback system involving current warming trends was weaker than generally asserted, coming to a conclusion that set his views apart from that of the IPCC's estimates.
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The World Climate Report, a newsletter edited by Patrick Michaels was first published by the Greening Earth Society.
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Patrick Michaels was one of hundreds of US reviewers composing the International Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group in 2007.
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Patrick Michaels said on CNN that 40 percent of his funding came from the oil industry.
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Patrick Michaels died on July 15,2022, in Washington, DC at age 72.
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Patrick Michaels's writing has been published in 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.
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Patrick Michaels was an author of the climate "paper of the year" awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004.