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07.16.2022

Pat Michaels (1950 – 2022)

It is with a heavy heart that we report on the death of dear friend and colleague Pat Michaels on July 15, 2022 (born February 15, 1950).

Patrick Michaels obtained a B. A. in biological science in 1971 and an M. S. 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. His doctoral thesis was titled Atmospheric anomalies and crop yields in North America.

Patrick J. Michaels was a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. He was a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for 30 years. Michaels was a contributing author and is a reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

His writing has been published in the major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science, as well as in popular serials worldwide. He was the author or editor of nine books on climate and its impact, and he was an author of the climate “paper of the year” awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004. He appeared on most of the worldwide major media.

Dr. Michaels was Senior Fellow at the CO2 Coalition and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

He remained very active up to his last days. He had just completed his review and comments on the USGCR decadal plan and filed them on Thursday. He met with Coalition staff just the day before his passing to discuss his next venture looking at regional assessments of changing climate/CO2 on the Midwest.

He leaves a legacy of sound science and dedication to the scientific process. He will be missed terribly.

1992 Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming
2000 The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming
2004 Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media
2005 Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming
2009 Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know
2011 Climate Coup: Global Warmings Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives
2015 Climate Change: The Facts
2016 Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything
2019 Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Public Science and Public Policy

 

 

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