Patrick J. Michaels is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is 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. Michaels was also a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for thirty years. Michaels is a contributing author and 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 such as the Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, and Journal of Commerce. 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. Michaels holds A.B. and S.M. degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago, and he received a Ph.D. in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1979. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJMichaels http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJMichaels TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:08:54 GMT Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:08:54 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Ominous words are emanating again from the president on climate change and energy independence, this time as "a response" to the Gulf oil catastrophe. Somewhere between the war rhetoric and comparisons to the moon... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJMichaels/2010/06/16/rahming_through_a_lame_duck_climate_bill 82e280b4-ca96-4203-b6ba-14fa6be6b025 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:08:54 GMT In today's odd academic culture, including the world of climate science, academic freedom applies selectively. People use their positions and their email for politicking and electioneering and have no trouble retaining... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJMichaels/2010/06/06/more_political_climate_science b90f3d1e-e87e-421e-ae98-53f026c8c0ef Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:01:00 GMT Antarctic Ice Melt Lowest Ever Measured. Where's the headline? Where's the television camera? Anyone out there? It's right there in the September 24 issue of the refereed journal Geophysical Resear http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJMichaels/2009/10/16/deafening_silence_on_real_climate_change a06b4790-36bf-4135-9746-dbecb344e9eb Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:16:51 GMT President Obama's risky perseverance on health care is running over another of his pet government expansions-the cap-and-trade bill sent by the House on June 26 for Senate consideration. Recall that cap-and-trade is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJMichaels/2009/09/18/cap-and-trade_is_dead__long_live_cap-and-trade 0b442faa-ca0f-457c-a14e-cc8c6a9aab3b Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT