Q:Facts: - residence: united states - thesis url: http://www.worldcat.org/title/atmospheric-anomalies-and-crop-yields-in-north-america/oclc/6464506 - known for: work on global warming - fields: climatology , ecology - thesis year: 1979 - workplaces: university institute of wisconsin , university of virginia , cato - thesis title: atmospheric anomalies and crop yields in north america - name: patrick j. michaels - nationality: american - website: -lsb- http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels patrick j. michaels -rsb- , cato institute - alma mater: university of chicago , university of wisconsin -- madison Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of patrick michaels .
A:
patrick j. -lrb- '' pat '' -rrb- michaels -lrb- born february 15 , 1950 -rrb- 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 '' -lrb- 1992 -rrb- , '' the satanic gases '' -lrb- 2000 -rrb- , and '' meltdown : the predictable distortion of global warming by scientists , politicians , and the media '' -lrb- 2004 -rrb- .he 's also the co-author of '' climate of extremes : global warming science they do n't want you to know '' -lrb- 2009 -rrb- .michaels ' viewpoint , as argued in a 2002 article in the journal '' climate research '' , is that the planet will see '' a warming range of 1.3 -- 3.0 c , with a central value of 1.9 c '' for the 1990 to 2100 period -lrb- an analysis far smaller than the ipcc 's average predictions -rrb- .