 patrick j. ("pat") michaels (born february 15, 1950) is 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. a self-described skeptic on the issue of global warming, he is a past president of the american association of state climatologists. he has written a number of books and papers on climate change, including sound and fury: the science and politics of global warming (1992), the satanic gases (2000), and meltdown: the predictable distortion of global warming by scientists, politicians, and the media (2004) and is the co-author of climate of extremes: global warming science they don't want you to know (2009)."patrick j. michaels," cato institute, accessed august 3, 2010; for his self-described skepticism, see michaels, patrick. "holes in the greenhouse effect?", cato institute, acc
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