Editing Patrick Michaels (section)

{{Short description|American climatologist (1950–2022)}}
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| name              = Patrick Michaels
| image             = Patrick Michaels by Gage Skidmore.jpg
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| caption           = Michaels in 2016
| birth_date        = {{Birth date |1950|02|15}}
| birth_place       = [[Berwyn, Illinois]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date and age |2022|7|15 |1950|02|15}}
| death_place       = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| nationality       = American
| fields            = [[Climatology]], [[ecology]]
| workplaces        = {{Plain list|
* [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]
* [[University of Virginia]]
* [[Cato Institute]]
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| alma_mater        = {{Plain list|
* [[University of Chicago]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|AB]], [[Master of Science|SM]])
* [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] ([[PhD]])
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| thesis_title      = Atmospheric Anomalies and Crop Yields in North America
| thesis_url        = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6464506
| thesis_year       = 1979
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| known_for         = Work on global warming
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| website           = [http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels Patrick J. Michaels], Cato Institute
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| spouse            = {{marriage|Rachel Schwartz|2010}}
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'''Patrick J. Michaels''' (February 15, 1950 – July 15, 2022) was an American agricultural [[Climatology|climatologist]].<ref name="Merchants">{{Cite book |last=Oreskes |first=Naomi |author-link=Naomi Oreskes |date=2010 |title=Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming |edition=1st U.S. |location=New York |publisher=Bloomsbury Press |isbn=978-1-59691-610-4 |oclc=461631066}}</ref><ref name="Gibson" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Pat Michaels RIP |date=July 16, 2022 |url=https://co2coalition.org/2022/07/16/pat-michaels-rip/ |publisher={{CO2}} Coalition |access-date=July 18, 2022}}</ref> Michaels was a senior fellow in environmental studies at the [[Cato Institute]] until 2019. Until 2007, he was [[Professor#Non-tenure-track positions|research professor]] of environmental sciences at the [[University of Virginia]], where he had worked from 1980.<ref name="Patrick J. Michaels"/><ref name="Gibson">{{cite news |last=Gibson |first=Bob |date=September 25, 2007 |title=Former climatologist will pursue research work |url=http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/former_climatologist_will_pursue_research_work/1857/ |newspaper=Charlottesville Daily Progress |archive-url=https://archive.today/20081201194308/http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/former_climatologist_will_pursue_research_work/1857/ |archive-date=December 1, 2008 |access-date=January 25, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Waldman |first=Scott |date=May 29, 2019 |title=POLITICS: Cato closes its climate shop; Pat Michaels is out |url=https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060419123 |publisher=[[Environment & Energy Publishing|E&E News]]|access-date=May 30, 2019}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Goldenberg |first1=Suzanne |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jan/25/michaels-climate-sceptic-misled-congress |title=Climate sceptic 'misled Congress over funding from oil industry' |date=January 25, 2011 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=September 16, 2024 |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> He described policies designed to reduce [[greenhouse gas emissions]] as "Obamunism".<ref name="Merchants" />

He wrote a number of books and papers [[climate change denial|denying or minimizing climate change]].<ref name="Patrick J. Michaels">"[http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels Patrick J. Michaels]", Cato Institute, accessed August 3, 2010; for his self-described skepticism, see Michaels, Patrick. [http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6129 "Holes in the Greenhouse Effect?"], Cato Institute, accessed August 3, 2010.</ref>