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New York Times

Patrick J. Michaels, Vocal Outlier on Climate Change, Dies at 72

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 07/22/2022

Patrick J. Michaels, a climate scientist who spoke out often and brashly against the prevailing view that climate change needs urgent attention, becoming a favorite…

Comment

CEI Comments to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Docket No. PL21-3-000

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr., Patrick J. Michaels
  • 04/25/2022

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Order on Draft Policy Statements, March 24, 2022. Docket No. PL21-3-000 Comments submitted by Marlo Lewis, Patrick Michaels, and Kevin Dayaratna.

Energy and Environment

News Release

New IPCC Report Deals in Politically-Convenient Fictions Rather than Fact-Based Reality

  • Patrick J. Michaels
  • 04/04/2022

WASHINGTON—The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today released the findings of its third working group, focused on mitigation and adaptation to…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Disregard the U.N.’s Latest Climate Screed

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 03/01/2022

The second big part of the newly released Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—also known as the…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Judge Orders Administration to Cease Using the Social Cost of Carbon

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 02/11/2022

Today, in a sweeping ruling from the Western District of Louisiana, Judge James D. Cain, Jr. ruled that the Biden administration must shelve its…

Energy and Environment

The Free Lance-Star

RGGI Is Climatically Meaningless

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 02/08/2022

Gov. Glenn Youngkin raised quite a kerfuffle when, even before he took office, he said he would extricate Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative…

Climate

Comment

CEI Comments on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation under Sections 3 and 7 of the Natural Gas Act.

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr., Patrick J. Michaels
  • 01/07/2022

Docket No. PL21-3-000 Comments submitted by Patrick Michaels, Kevin Dayaratna, and Marlo Lewis.[1] Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the questions posed…

Energy

Blog

President Biden Sows the Whirlwind

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 12/13/2021

It’s the president’s job to console the nation when natural disasters strike, like the horrendous tornado outbreak last Friday night. Much of Mayfield, Kentucky,…

Energy and Environment

Comment

CEI Comments on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Proposed Fuel Economy Standards for Model Year 2024-2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr., Patrick J. Michaels
  • 10/26/2021

Comments submitted by Patrick J. Michaels, Kevin Dayaratna, and Marlo Lewis.[1] Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the National Highway Traffic Safety…

Energy and Environment

Comment

CEI Comments on Revised 2023 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards Proposed Rule

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr., Patrick J. Michaels
  • 09/27/2021

Environmental Protection Agency, Revised 2023 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards, Proposed Rule, 83 FR 43726 (August 10, 2021) Docket ID:…

Energy

The Washington Examiner

The UN’s IPCC Report is a Code Red for Climate Alarmism

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 09/26/2021

This seems odd: This summer, the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the near-final version of its “Sixth Assessment Report,” an apparently comprehensive…

Climate

Blog

Observations Concerning the Newest IPCC Report

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 08/10/2021

View Full Document as PDF The case made for catastrophic climate change in the new “Sixth Assessment Report” by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental…

Energy

The Washington Examiner

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf Wants to Ignore Science to Pass a Carbon Tax

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 08/06/2021

The Washington Examiner cites Senior Fellow Patrick Michaels on Pennsylvania’s Climate Action Plan: Patrick Michaels, a senior fellow and climatologist with the…

Energy and Environment

AEI

The Case for Climate Change Realism

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 06/21/2021

The American Enterprise Institute cites Senior Fellow Patrick Michaels on climate change: Unable to demonstrate that observed climate trends are due to…

Climate

Comment

Comments On OMB Technical Support Document on Social Cost of Carbon

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr., Patrick J. Michaels
  • 06/21/2021

View Full Document as PDF Office of Management and Budget Notice of Availability and Request for Comment on “Technical Support Document: Social Cost…

Energy

The Washington Examiner

Would a Phaseout of Hydrofluorocarbons Avoid Half a Degree of Global Warming?

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 05/12/2021

This piece was co-authored by Benjamin Zycher  In a recent “Daily on Energy” report for the Washington Examiner, Josh Siegel and Abby Smith reported:…

Energy

The Center Square

Made In China? Biden’s Climate Plan Raises Questions About U.S. Energy Independence

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 04/26/2021

The Center Square cites Senior Fellow Patrick Michaels on China’s climate policy: “If the Chinese government actually cared about global warming, it…

Energy

Real Clear Energy

New Biden Climate Policies May Face Strong Legal Headwinds

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 04/23/2021

Overview Although the United States is rejoining the Paris Agreement, the ability of the Biden administration to discharge its obligations under the pact are heavily…

Energy

Blog

Will China Play the U.S. on Climate?

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 04/20/2021

President Biden’s 40-nation “virtual climate summit” is scheduled to begin on Earth Day, April 22. Even at this late date, it’s not clear that…

Energy and Environment

Real Clear Energy

The Happy Warrior Saves His Best Climate Writing for Last

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 04/06/2021

S. Fred Singer, who died last year, was an emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, well-known for his written and…

Energy

Blog

EPA to Increase Transparency in Regulatory Science—for Now

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 01/20/2021

Not many people know that much of the science used to regulate pollutants and radiation is a mess. To help clear this up, on January…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Hyping the Whirlwind

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 12/04/2020

A new Nature paper on hurricane decay rates that was published on November 11 by Lin Li and Pinaki Chakroborty (hereafter, LC20) is receiving a…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Warming Nights, Longer Growing Seasons, and a Greener Planet

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 10/15/2020

Dozens of recent news stories note newly published research showing that night temperatures are rising faster than daytime readings. Despite this “asymmetric” warming, there…

Climate

Blog

A Brief Note on Airplane, Clouds, and Global Warming

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 10/15/2020

We recently linked to a new paper by D.S. Lee of Manchester Metropolitan University (U.K.), along with 20 coauthors, on global aviation and climate…

Climate

Blog

Federally Commissioned Climate Report Defies Reality

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 09/24/2020

Earlier this month, The New York Times reported at length about an ominous report on climate change that was commissioned by the Commodities…

Climate

Blog

The Year of the Weeniecane May Be Ending

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 08/17/2020

Every prediction for this year’s Atlantic hurricane season—and there are many of them—has been forecasting above normal activity, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s…

Climate

The Epoch Times

Basis for Biden Climate Plan Challenged by Experts

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 08/03/2020

The Epoch Times cites a joint study conducted by Kevin Dayaratna from the Heritage Foundation and CEI senior fellow Patrick J. Michaels on endangerment findings: Dayaratna…

Energy and Environment

Real Clear Energy

Climate Predictions “Worse Than We Thought”

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels, Patrick Michaels
  • 07/14/2020

As the temperature of the eastern U.S. normally reaches its summer maximum around the last week of July, every year at this time we are…

Energy and Environment

RealClear Policy

Climate Predictions “Worse Than We Thought”

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 07/14/2020

As the temperature of the eastern U.S. normally reaches its summer maximum around the last week of July, every year at this time we are…

Energy and Environment

Blog

New Study Finds Much More Global Greening than Previously Estimated

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 05/01/2020

A new study paper on global greening by a team of Australian scientists demonstrates that previous estimates of carbon dioxide-induced global greening since 1900 are too…

Climate

Blog

New CEI Study Endangers EPA’s Endangerment Finding

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 04/21/2020

Just in time for the 50th Earth Day, CEI is publishing an Issue Analysis called “The Scientific Case for Vacating EPA’s Carbon Dioxide Endangerment Finding.”…

Climate

Frederick News Post

Counterpoint: Let’s really celebrate the 50th Earth Day with some humble pie

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 04/20/2020

April 22 marks the 50th Earth Day, born in the height of fears of the population bomb, global famine, miasmatic air and the rapid decline…

News Release

CEI Report: EPA Using Flawed Models as Basis for Regulating Carbon Dioxide

  • Patrick J. Michaels
  • 04/17/2020

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today released a new report demonstrating that the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding, which allows the agency to regulate carbon dioxide…

Energy and Environment

Study

The Scientific Case for Vacating the EPA’s Carbon Dioxide Endangerment Finding

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 04/17/2020

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2009 “Endangerment Finding” from carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases grants the agency a legal mandate that can…

Energy and Environment

Blog

House Democrats’ Third Coronavirus Supplemental Appropriation Bill Is an Outrage

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 03/26/2020

The Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act is the most irresponsible piece of fiscal legislation to come out of the profligate Congress for a…

Business and Government

The Washington Examiner

Australian Wildfires Were Caused by Humans, Not Climate Change

  • By: Myron Ebell, Patrick J. Michaels
  • 01/08/2020

Alarmists have been quick to blame climate change for the recent, horrific fires in Australia and California. Although human actions do bear a large share…

Energy and Environment

Blog

West Antarctic Ice Sheet Growing As Southern Ocean Warms Slightly

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 10/21/2019

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is growing, but I bet you didn’t read about it in the news.

Climate

Blog

Are Hurricanes Becoming Blow-Hards?

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 10/16/2019

Last month, as Tropical Storm Imelda slowly dissipated over south Texas, creating yet another Texas-sized flood, I read an article in Business Insider making the…

Climate

The Washington Times

Are Hurricanes Getting Worse?

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 10/15/2019

On September 20, Aylin Woodward and Morgan McFall-Johnson wrote a juicy article for Business Insider on Tropical Storm Imelda. Like every other slow-moving storm that…

Climate

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