Patrick Michaels

Patrick Michaels in 2016

Patrick J. Michaels (February 15, 1950 – July 16, 2022) was an American agricultural climatologist.[1][2][3] Michaels was a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute until 2019. Until 2007, he was research professor[broken anchor] of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, where he had worked from 1980.[2][4] He was born in Berwyn, Illinois. He was a well known climate change denier.

Michaels died on July 16, 2022 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 72.[5]

References

  1. Oreskes, Naomi. (2010). Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming (1st U.S. ed.). New York: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 978-1-59691-610-4. OCLC 461631066.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Gibson, Bob (September 25, 2007). Former climatologist will pursue research work. http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/former_climatologist_will_pursue_research_work/1857/. Retrieved January 25, 2014. 
  3. "Pat Michaels RIP". CO2 Coalition. July 16, 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-18.
  4. Waldman, Scott (May 29, 2019). POLITICS: Cato closes its climate shop; Pat Michaels is out. E&E News. https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060419123. Retrieved 2019-05-30. 
  5. Patrick Michaels, outspoken climate change contrarian, dies at 72