Pat Michaels
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Thirty Years On, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up?
James Hansen issued dire warnings in the summer of 1988. Today earth is only modestly warmer. → Read More
Changes in the Climate Policy Winds
Nature Geosciences published an article by Richard Millar of the University of Exeter and nine coauthors that states the climate models have been predicting too much warming. → Read More
Global Science Report: Health Effects of Global Warming
The impact of global warming on temperature-induced human mortality has long been a concern, where it has been hypothesized that rising temperatures will lead to an increase in the number of deaths due to an increase in the frequency and intensity of heat waves. Others claim that rising temperatures will also reduce the number of deaths at the cold end of the temperature spectrum (fewer and less… → Read More
Statement on U.S. Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Treaty
In response to the U.S. withdraw from the Paris climate treaty, I’ve issued the following statement → Read More
The Scientific Argument against the Paris Climate Agreement
The Paris Agreement is based upon a fundamental misconception of climate history and science. → Read More
Will Warming and “Acidification” Create Chaos in Coastal Ecosystems?
One of the key concerns about climate change is ecosystem resilience. → Read More
What The Economist Didn’t Tell You about Greenland’s Ice
They left out a few pertinent facts. → Read More
Global Science Report: Antarctic Updates
In the 1990s and early part of this century, news reports about the dramatic warming of the northernmost Antarctic Peninsula—the tip of the 800-mile dagger pointed at the heart of Tierra del Fuego—were a common staple. And, while scientists wouldn’t write this in the literature, they were happy to blame it on dreaded carbon dioxide on television, as paleoclimatologist Robert Mulvaney did in the… → Read More
A Climate of Science Deception
Former Energy Department Undersecretary Steven Koonin caused quite a stir yesterday in an interview with Mary Kissel of The Wall Street Journal when he stated Federal scientists purposefully misled the public about climate change. → Read More
Who Should Fund Science?
While some are not liking the gradual withdrawal of the government from funding basic science, the rest of us should be singing praise. → Read More
The Case Against a U.S. Carbon Tax
Some proponents of federal policies to combat climate change are arguing for a federal carbon tax (or similar type of “carbon price”). Within conservative and libertarian circles, some proponents claim that a revenue-neutral carbon tax “swap” could deliver a double dividend, reducing climate change while shifting some of the nation’s tax burden onto carbon emissions, which supposedly would spur… → Read More
You Ought to Have a Look: Natural Climate Variability
You Ought to Have a Look is a feature from the Center for the Study of Science. → Read More
Save the Polar Bears? They're Fine, Actually
This Earth Day, it’s time to give the polar bear the respect it deserves. Nothing humans can do to the climate is going to wipe it out. → Read More
You Ought to Have a Look: Carbon Taxes, Democracy’s Failure, and the “Astronomical” Warmth of February
We highlight recent articles from around the web focusing on the case against a carbon tax, the case for democracy, and an exmaple of how the press overplays weather events when discussing climate change. → Read More
You Ought to Have a Look: Faced with a Losing Hand, Obama Sweetens the Pot
Harsh reality is stacking up against our ability to achieve the cuts in our national emissions of greenhouse gases that President Obama promised the international community gathered in Paris last December at the UN’s climate conference. → Read More
Global Warming
Global warming is indeed real, and human activity has been a contributor since 1975. But global warming is also a very complicated and difficult issue that can provoke very unwise policy in response to political pressure. Although there are many different legislative proposals for substantial reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, there is no operational or tested suite of technologies that can… → Read More
The Climate Snow Job
A blizzard! The hottest year ever! More signs that global warming and its extreme effects are beyond debate, right? Not even close. → Read More
You Ought to Have a Look: Carbon Tax, Government Science, Laurel and Hardy Weather Observations
We highlight some some recent worth-reading articles on a carbon tax, federal funding of science, and problems with observing the weather. → Read More
You Ought to Have a Look: 2015 Temperatures, Climate Sensitivity, and the Warming Hiatus
We highlight in this issue of You Ought to Have a Look a couple of articles that address the inadequacies of climate models that we think are worth checking out. → Read More
Climate Models and Climate Reality: A Closer Look at a Lukewarming World
The case for lukewarming — modest anthropogenic climate change in accordance with the lower end of expectations from mainstream science — is simple, straightforward, and compelling. It is readily demonstrated that the rate of warming that has taken place over the past several decades, both at the earth’s surface as well as is the lower levels of the earth’s atmosphere critical for the… → Read More