Patrick Michaels

Patrick Michaels
Michaels in 2016
Born(1950-02-15)February 15, 1950
DiedJuly 15, 2022(2022-07-15) (aged 72)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known forWork on global warming
Spouse
Rachel Schwartz
(m. 2010)
Scientific career
FieldsClimatology, ecology
Institutions
ThesisAtmospheric Anomalies and Crop Yields in North America (1979)
WebsitePatrick J. Michaels, Cato Institute

Patrick J. Michaels (February 15, 1950 – July 15, 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.[4][2][5]

Starting in 1991, he collaborated with Fred Singer to attack the scientific consensus on ozone depletion. He joined the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank.[6] He described policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as "Obamunism".[1]

He wrote a number of books and papers denying or minimizing climate change.[4]

Early life

Born 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.[7] His doctoral thesis was titled Atmospheric anomalies and crop yields in North America.[8]

In 1991 and 1992, Michaels collaborated with Fred Singer in writing articles for the Washington Times rejecting the scientific consensus on ozone depletion. He advanced arguments on the subject as late as 2000.[1]

Views on climate change

Michaels said that he does not contest the basic scientific principles behind greenhouse warming and acknowledges that the global mean temperature has increased in recent decades.[9] He is quoted as being skeptical of global warming,[10] and was described by Michael E. Mann as a "prominent climate change contrarian".[11] He contends that the changes will be minor, not catastrophic, and may even be beneficial.[12]

A 2002 article published in the journal Climate Research by Michaels and three other scholars predicted "a warming range of 1.3–3.0°C, with a central value of 1.9°C" over the 1990 to 2100 period, although he remarked that the "temperature range and central values determined in our study may be too great". He made the argument that the climate feedback system involving current warming trends was weaker than generally asserted, coming to a conclusion that set his views apart from that of the IPCC's estimates.[13]

In 2009, Michaels authored a Cato report arguing that "Congress should pass no legislation restricting emissions of carbon dioxide, repeal current ethanol mandates, and inform the public about how little climate change would be prevented by proposed legislation."[14]

In 2018, Michaels asserted on Fox News, "[P]robably about half, maybe half of that nine-tenths of the degree [of total warming] might be caused by greenhouse gases." Climate Feedback, a fact-checking website for media coverage on climate change, wrote of Michaels' assertion, "No evidence or research is provided to support this claim, which contradicts the published scientific literature."[15]

Advocacy

Expert witness for Western Fuels Association

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.[16] Western Fuels Association is a consortium of coal producers that uses collective advocacy to represent industry interests.[17]

World Climate Report, Greening Earth Society, and Western Fuels Association

The World Climate Report, a newsletter edited by Michaels was first published by the Greening Earth Society. The society was a public relations organization associated with the Western Fuels Association (WFA), an association of coal-burning utility companies.[18][19][20] It has been called a "front group created by the coal industry"[21] and an "industry front".[22] Fred Palmer, a society staffer, is a registered lobbyist for Peabody Energy, a coal company.[23] WFA founded the group in 1997, according to an archived version of its website, "as a vehicle for advocacy on climate change, the environmental impact of CO2, and fossil fuel use."[24]

2003 John Holdren

Office of Science and Technology Policy director, John Holdren,[25] told the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee in June 2003, "Michaels is another of the handful of U.S. climate-change contrarians … He has published little if anything of distinction in the professional literature, being noted rather for his shrill op-ed pieces and indiscriminate denunciations of virtually every finding of mainstream climate science."[26] In 2009 Michaels responded in a Washington Examiner op-ed, saying that the IPCC had subverted the peer review process, and adding the IPCC had "left out plenty of peer-reviewed science that it found inconveniently disagreeable."[27]

IPCC

Michaels was one of hundreds of US reviewers composing the International Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group in 2007.[28]

Although the Greening Earth Society was generally skeptical of the impact of climate change, it acknowledged some degree of global warming as real: "Fact #1. The rate of global warming during the past several decades has been about 0.18°C per decade".[29] Note that the actual increase in the global surface temperature during the 100 years ending in 2005 was 0.74 ± 0.18 °C.[30]

Climate scientist Tom Wigley,[31] a lead author of parts of the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has stated that "Michaels' statements on the subject of computer models are a catalog of misrepresentation and misinterpretation … Many of the supposedly factual statements made in Michaels' testimony are either inaccurate or are seriously misleading."[32]

Funding from energy or fossil fuel companies

In 2006, a Colorado energy cooperative, the Intermountain Rural Electric Association, had given Michaels $100,000.[33] An Associated Press report said that the donations had been made after Michaels had "told Western business leaders ... that he was running out of money for his analyses of other scientists' global warming research" and noted that the cooperative had a vested interest in opposing mandatory carbon dioxide caps, a situation that raised conflict of interest concerns.[34]

Michaels said on CNN that 40 percent of his funding came from the oil industry.[35] According to Fred Pearce, fossil fuel companies have helped fund Michaels' projects, including his World Climate Report, published every year since 1994, and his "advocacy science consulting firm", New Hope Environmental Services.[36]

A 2005 article published by the Seattle Times reported that Michaels had received more than $165,000 in fuel-industry funding, including money from the coal industry, to publish his own climate journal.[10]

Death

Michaels died on July 15, 2022, in Washington, D.C. at age 72. He leaves behind a wife Rachel Schwartz Michaels (m-2016 - 2022)[37]

Selected publications

His writing has been published in major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science, as well as in popular serials such as the Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, and Journal of Commerce.[4] He was an author of the climate "paper of the year" awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004.[4][38]

Science papers and technical comments

Books

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b Gibson, Bob (September 25, 2007). "Former climatologist will pursue research work". Charlottesville Daily Progress. Archived from the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
  3. ^ "Pat Michaels RIP". CO2 Coalition. July 16, 2022. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d "Patrick J. Michaels", Cato Institute, accessed August 3, 2010; for his self-described skepticism, see Michaels, Patrick. "Holes in the Greenhouse Effect?", Cato Institute, accessed August 3, 2010.
  5. ^ Waldman, Scott (May 29, 2019). "POLITICS: Cato closes its climate shop; Pat Michaels is out". E&E News. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
  6. ^ Goldenberg, Suzanne (January 25, 2011). "Climate sceptic 'misled Congress over funding from oil industry'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
  7. ^ "C.V. Patrick J. Michaels" (PDF). United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce. February 12, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 3, 2011.
  8. ^ Michaels, Patrick J. (1979). "Atmospheric anomalies and crop yields in North America". University of Wisconsin–Madison. OCLC 6464506. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ Michaels, Patrick (February 1, 2007). "Live with climate change". USA Today. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  10. ^ a b Doughton, Sandi (October 11, 2005). "The truth about global warming". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on April 25, 2007. Retrieved May 4, 2007. one of the most widely quoted global-warming skeptics
  11. ^ Michael E. Mann (October 1, 2013). The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. Columbia University Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-231-15255-6.
  12. ^ Michaels, Patrick; Paul C. Knappenberger; Robert E. Davis (Fall 2000). "The Way of Warming" (PDF). 23 (3). Regulation. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 15, 2007. Retrieved March 14, 2007. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ^ "Revised 21st century temperature projections", Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. Knappenberger, Oliver W. Frauenfeld and Robert E. Davis, Climate Research, Vol. 23: 1–9, 2002.
  14. ^ Michaels, Patrick (2009). "CATO Handbook for Policy Makers" (PDF). CATO Institute.
  15. ^ Johnson, Scott (July 9, 2019). "On Fox News, Patrick Michaels falsely claims humans are only responsible for half of global warming". Science Feedback. Climate Feedback. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
  16. ^ Gelbspan, Ross (December 1995). "The Heat is On:The warming of the world's climate sparks a blaze of denial". Harper's Magazine. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
  17. ^ "What we do". Western Fuels Association.
  18. ^ "Scientific Advisers". Archived from the original on December 5, 1998. Retrieved May 30, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link), Greening Earth Society, website archived from December 1998.
  19. ^ "Scientific Advisers". Archived from the original on September 25, 2001. Retrieved May 30, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link), Greening Earth Society, website archived from September 2001.
  20. ^ Norr, Henry (August 14, 2000). "Energy Debate Heats Up". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
  21. ^ Stauber, John (August 9, 2001). "Coal Industry Front Group Spouts Hot Air". PR Watch. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
  22. ^ Appell, David (July 2, 2001). "Salon.com Books | "It Ain't Necessarily So" by David Murray, et al". Salon.com. Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
  23. ^ U.S. Lobby Registration and Disclosure Page
  24. ^ "Join GES". Archived from the original on March 8, 2005. Retrieved March 8, 2005.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Greening Earth Society website, archived from March 2005.
  25. ^ "John Holdren's bio and publications at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs". Archived from the original on August 1, 2011. Retrieved March 31, 2009.
  26. ^ John P. Holdren (June 9, 2003). "Comments by John P. Holdren on "The Shaky Science Behind the Climate Change Sense of the Congress Resolution" – US Senate Republican Policy Committee" (PDF). Retrieved March 14, 2007.
  27. ^ "Patrick Michaels: Climate scientists subverted peer review". December 2, 2009. Archived from the original on May 21, 2010. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
  28. ^ "Power Hour: Patrick Michaels on Global Warming and the IPCC". CIP. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  29. ^ "Greening Earth Society". Archived from the original on March 15, 2005. Retrieved March 15, 2005.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  30. ^ "Summary for Policymakers" (PDF). Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. February 5, 2007. Retrieved February 2, 2007. The updated hundred-year linear trend (1906 to 2005) of 0.74 °C [0.56 °C to 0.92 °C] is therefore larger than the corresponding trend for 1901 to 2000 given in the TAR of 0.6 °C [0.4 °C to 0.8 °C].
  31. ^ "Leading Climate Scientists Reaffirm View that Late 20th Century Warming Was Unusual and Resulted From Human Activity" (Press release). American Geophysical Union. July 7, 2003. Archived from the original on July 13, 2007. Retrieved May 27, 2007.
  32. ^ Gelbspan, Ross (August 1997). The Heat is On. Perseus Books. ISBN 0-201-13295-8.
  33. ^ Sandell, Clayton; Bill Blakemore (July 27, 2006). "ABC News Reporting Cited As Evidence In Congressional Hearing On Global Warming". ABC News. Retrieved March 14, 2007.
  34. ^ Borenstein, Seth (July 26, 2006). "Utilities Give Warming Skeptic Big Bucks". The Boston Globe. Associated Press. Retrieved October 13, 2009.
  35. ^ "Interview with Fareed Zakaria, Gavin Schmidt, Jeffrey Sachs and Patrick Michaels". CNN. August 15, 2010. Archived from the original on December 12, 2021.
  36. ^ Pearce, Fred (2010). The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming. Guardian Books. ISBN 978-0-85265-229-9. p. X.
  37. ^ Patrick Michaels, outspoken climate change contrarian, dies at 72
  38. ^ "CSG John Russell Mather Paper of the Year". www.du.edu/csg/. American Association of Geographers Climate Specialty Group. Retrieved July 19, 2022.

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