Patrick Michaels
Patrick Michaels
Patrick J.Michaelsis an American climatologist. Michaels is a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute. Until 2007 he was research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, where he had worked from 1980...
grain mountain takes truth turns
This movie takes a grain of truth and turns into a mountain of apocalypse.
occurred serious
Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.
consensus debate position scientific
Michael's position is in the minority. The consensus is the scientific debate is all but over.
dry time
It's going to take a long time to dry out.
dollars research climate
The conference also 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 climate scientists whose research is supported by industry somehow less virtuous?
agency years numbers
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) own computer model easily shows that President Obama's proposed regulations would reduce global warming by around 0.02 of a degree Celsius by the year 2100. Actually, the true number is probably even smaller because that calculation assumes a future rate of warming - there hasn't been any for 17 years now - quite a bit higher than it is likely to be.