Memorializing Dr Patrick Michaels Feb 15 1950 – July 16 2022

The CO2 Coalition and the world of climate science lost one of its most respected scientists last week with the ‘sudden’ passing of Dr. Patrick Michaels.

Pat had been a Senior Fellow here since 2019, but had been waging war on climate misinformation for many decades.

Patrick Michaels obtained an 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.

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 is 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 has appeared on most of the worldwide major media.

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

Pat’s literary legacy:

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 Warming’s 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

Pat Michaels had just completed his comments on the United States Global Change Research Plan but passed before he was able to submit them. We have published them at our website as a final footnote to his legacy in promoting science and the scientific method. He didn’t pull any punches in this hard-hitting review.

Here are a few of his best zingers:

·      USGCRP cheapens its already strained credibility by parroting a truly insane piece of intellectual drivel from the IPCC. Constructive suggestion: delete the entire quote.

·      I have purposefully digressed and sexed-up my comments on geoengineering because in my not-short life I have witnessed and chronicled both scientific brilliance and stupidity, and geoengineering is surely the best of the latter.

·      These two paragraphs of meaningless word salad are evidence for the trendy politicization of the USGCRP. Why not just say that the USGCRP will incorporate the twaddle of witch doctors into their next National Assessment.

·      As a practical matter, wokeness like this is going to be soundly rejected in the November election. Why not get ahead of the curve and quit this stuff while you’re ahead?

·      This word salad could easily be condensed. Suggested change: “USGCRP and its agencies will become increasingly “woke”

Dr Michaels’ key comment on the climate scam

“The conference has a moral duty to examine the corruption of science that can be caused by massive amounts of money.

The United States has disbursed tens of billions of dollars to climate scientists who would not have received those funds had their research shown climate change to be beneficial or even modest in its effects.

Are these scientists being tempted by money? And are the very, very few scientists whose research is supported by industry somehow less virtuous?”

Editor’s note: Dr Michaels was just 72 when he died. Could he be the latest fully ‘vaccinated’ person to die a ‘sudden unexpected’ death?

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    Kenneth Hughes

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    Suspicious !

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    Alan

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    The last comments from Dr Micheals confirm what Eisenhower warned us about in his farewell address. America and the rest of the world should have listened.

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    Mervyn

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    He will be missed for his contribution to the mythical dangerous man-made global warming alarmism debate.

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