Patrick Michaels

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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 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". Template: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