Patrick J. Michaels on Climate Change

Cato Institute Senior Fellow Patrick J. Michaels discusses climate change on various television programs. Michaels is a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and visiting scientist with the Marshall Institute in Washington, D.C. 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.

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[fluff125]

It pisses me the fuck off when they show water vapor rising from cooling towers as if it's pollution.

[josbornx]

Keep up the good fight

[leigh8959]

I'm anything but a climate change skeptic. I've always believed that humans are causing global warming, and I've always been in favor of solar power, wind power, electric cars etc... that being said, I have respect for Patrick Michaels.

[snowleopardNW]

Patrick Michaels is an important contributor to this debate. But everyone should understand that although this guy is skeptical, which is a good thing for scientists, he still believes that human released CO2 is contributing to global warming. Where he disagrees in the rate of warming. Time will tell if he's correct, or rather the overwhelming majority of climate scientists who disagree with him. People should also realize that he gets some of his funding from the fossil fuel industry. 

[Richard482]

@AllardSteed "The vast majority of climate research is funded by the state " Not true.

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[GaunletofDestruction]

Patrick J. Michaels you are my hero! :D Don't ever give up your fight for what is the right for America!!!

[progoofy]

Great video thanks...

Whats important here is Dr Patrick Michaels states that climate change is not a hoax & that humans are changing the climate. 1:50

So unfortunately its a REAL issue but i am (at least) pleased to hear that Dr Michaels thinks its dramatically overblown. 3:02

Now at least i know the debate is on the severity of man made global warming rather than if it exists at all. That's half the argument cleared up.

[skunkworks226]

@tracer740 if industry funding corrupts, lets just say that the agw people have a lot of explaining to do. last time i checked we spend more money on this than we do cancer and this was back when bush was president

[AllardSteed]

So what? CATO gets money from private companies. The vast majority of climate research is funded by the state and those often are biased. Judge the work by it's own merits, just because corporations paid for it doesn't make it intrinsically bad or state funded makes something intrinsically good. When the it's privately funded at least you are not forced to contribute as you are when the state funds it.

[tracer740]

They are buying not only 'scientists', but have garnered the efforts of broadcast journalists and talkradio 'personalities' to constantly deride and ridicule all efforts toward rectififying the concommittent effects of greenhouse gases on climate change. I say,' we will get what we deserve'. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The warnings have been here long enough.

[tracer740]

CATO Inst. in pockets of global corp. No question about the amount of money and power that will be expended to discredit the manmade influences on global climate change. Patrick Michaels too dramatically in favor of corporations (he calls them 'people' lol). Mindfucking personnified! Anyone older than 45 can recognize the wild and aberrant weather changes and climate shifts we've now recognized.