Patrick J. Michaels

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Patrick J. Michaels (born February 15, 1950) is an American climatologist. Michaels is a distinguished senior fellow in public policy at George Mason University, and a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute. Until 2007 he was research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, where he had worked from 1980. A self-described skeptic on the issue of global warming, he is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists. He has written a number of books and papers on climate change, including Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming (1992), The Satanic Gases (2000), and Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media (2004) and is the co-author of Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know (2009). In Michaels' view, the influence upon human activity on global climate change is significant, but often overstated. He argues that increased warming from now until 2100 will most likely be modest enough for humans to adapt and mitigate it through private, free market economic advancement. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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