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[[Patrick Michaels]] is a [[Cato Institute]] scholar who asserts that global warming is a ‘myth’.<ref>Patrick J Michaels, [http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9406 Global-Warming Myth], ''Cato Institute'', accessed 12.10.10</ref> Michaels bases his opinion on evidence from the work of Noah Keenlyside and his team from the Leipzig Institute of Marine Science. According to their paper, the Earth’s oceans have a natural variability which will ‘temporarily offset’ global warming from carbon dioxide.<ref>Patrick J Michaels, [http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9406 Global-Warming Myth], ''Cato Institute'', accessed 12.10.10</ref> The argument is that the Earth’s surface is 70% oceanic, therefore significantly influences global temperature, this means that ‘Both Atlantic and Pacific temperatures can get “stuck” for a decade or longer, in relatively warm or cool patterns.’<ref>Patrick J Michaels, [http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9406 Global-Warming Myth], ''Cato Institute'', accessed 12.10.10</ref>   
 
[[Patrick Michaels]] is a [[Cato Institute]] scholar who asserts that global warming is a ‘myth’.<ref>Patrick J Michaels, [http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9406 Global-Warming Myth], ''Cato Institute'', accessed 12.10.10</ref> Michaels bases his opinion on evidence from the work of Noah Keenlyside and his team from the Leipzig Institute of Marine Science. According to their paper, the Earth’s oceans have a natural variability which will ‘temporarily offset’ global warming from carbon dioxide.<ref>Patrick J Michaels, [http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9406 Global-Warming Myth], ''Cato Institute'', accessed 12.10.10</ref> The argument is that the Earth’s surface is 70% oceanic, therefore significantly influences global temperature, this means that ‘Both Atlantic and Pacific temperatures can get “stuck” for a decade or longer, in relatively warm or cool patterns.’<ref>Patrick J Michaels, [http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9406 Global-Warming Myth], ''Cato Institute'', accessed 12.10.10</ref>   
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Michaels also criticises legislative efforts to control climate change, stating, ‘Science no longer provides justification for any rush to pass drastic global warming legislation’.<ref>Patrick J Michaels, [http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9406 Global-Warming Myth], ''Cato Institute'', accessed 12.10.10</ref>
  
 
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Patrick Michaels is a Cato Institute scholar who asserts that global warming is a ‘myth’.[1] Michaels bases his opinion on evidence from the work of Noah Keenlyside and his team from the Leipzig Institute of Marine Science. According to their paper, the Earth’s oceans have a natural variability which will ‘temporarily offset’ global warming from carbon dioxide.[2] The argument is that the Earth’s surface is 70% oceanic, therefore significantly influences global temperature, this means that ‘Both Atlantic and Pacific temperatures can get “stuck” for a decade or longer, in relatively warm or cool patterns.’[3]

Michaels also criticises legislative efforts to control climate change, stating, ‘Science no longer provides justification for any rush to pass drastic global warming legislation’.[4]

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  1. Patrick J Michaels, Global-Warming Myth, Cato Institute, accessed 12.10.10
  2. Patrick J Michaels, Global-Warming Myth, Cato Institute, accessed 12.10.10
  3. Patrick J Michaels, Global-Warming Myth, Cato Institute, accessed 12.10.10
  4. Patrick J Michaels, Global-Warming Myth, Cato Institute, accessed 12.10.10