The late Patrick J. Michaels was a senior fellow in the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He was also a senior fellow with the CO2 Coalition in Arlington, VA.
Previously, he was a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for 30 years, and Virginia State Climatologist for 27 years. He was President of the American Association of State Climatologists and program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society, and Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute.
He published numerous articles on climate or its impact in the peer-reviewed scientific literature and was author of eight books, including the recent Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything, from Cato Books. He holds AB and SM degrees in in biology and plant ecology from University of Chicago, and a PhD in Ecological Climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In November 2019, along with Terence Kealey, he will be the senior author/editor of Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Public Science and Public Policy, also to published by Cato Books. He was an author of the 2004 climate “Paper of the Year” awarded by the American Association of Professional Geographers, and was recently awarded the “Courage in Science” prize by the Heartland Institute.
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News
New IPCC Report Deals in Politically-Convenient Fictions Rather than Fact-Based Reality
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…
CEI Report: EPA Using Flawed Models as Basis for Regulating Carbon Dioxide
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…
Blog
Disregard the U.N.’s Latest Climate Screed
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…
Judge Orders Administration to Cease Using the Social Cost of Carbon
Today, in a sweeping ruling from the Western District of Louisiana, Judge James D. Cain, Jr. ruled that the Biden administration must shelve its…
President Biden Sows the Whirlwind
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,…
Op-Eds/Articles
The Free Lance-Star
RGGI Is Climatically Meaningless
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…
The Washington Examiner
The UN’s IPCC Report is a Code Red for Climate Alarmism
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…
The Washington Examiner
Would a Phaseout of Hydrofluorocarbons Avoid Half a Degree of Global Warming?
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:…
Studies
The Scientific Case for Vacating the EPA’s Carbon Dioxide Endangerment Finding
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…
Citations
New York Times
Patrick J. Michaels, Vocal Outlier on Climate Change, Dies at 72
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…
The Washington Examiner
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf Wants to Ignore Science to Pass a Carbon Tax
The Washington Examiner cites Senior Fellow Patrick Michaels on Pennsylvania’s Climate Action Plan: Patrick Michaels, a senior fellow and climatologist with the…
AEI
The Case for Climate Change Realism
The American Enterprise Institute cites Senior Fellow Patrick Michaels on climate change: Unable to demonstrate that observed climate trends are due to…
Regulatory Comments
CEI Comments to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Docket No. PL21-3-000
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.
CEI Comments on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation under Sections 3 and 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
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…
CEI Comments on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Proposed Fuel Economy Standards for Model Year 2024-2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks
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…