Patrick Michaels

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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]

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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