Meltdown : the predictable distortion of global warming by scientists, politicians,
and the media / Patrick J. Michaels, 2004
Wikipedia, 2022-07-19
Information trouvée : Patrick J. Michaels (February 15, 1950 – July 16, 2022) was an American agricultural
climatologist. Michaels was a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute
until 2019. Until 2007, he was research professor of environmental sciences at the
University of Virginia, where he had worked from 1980. He collaborated with Fred Singer
to attack the scientific consensus on ozone depletion from 1991. He was a president
of the American Association of State Climatologists. He wrote a number of books and
papers denying or minimizing climate change. orn in Berwyn, Illinois, Michaels obtained
an A.B. in biological science in 1971 and an S.M. in biology in 1975 from the University
of Chicago, and in 1979 he obtained his Ph.D. in ecological climatology from the University
of Wisconsin–Madison. In May 1994 Richard Lindzen, Michaels, and Robert Balling served
as expert witnesses on behalf of Western Fuels Association in St. Paul, Minnesota
to determine the environmental cost of coal burning by state power plants.[