Patrick J. Michaels > Quotes

“The damage caused by opioids is largely caused by their prohibition,”
― Patrick J. Michaels, Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Public Science and Public Policy

“another tactic being used to leverage more grant money from Congress—namely, the exaggeration of threats. Since the 1960s, environmental scientists have sequentially forecast existential threats from overpopulation, pollution, extinctions, global cooling, acid rain, global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion, low-level ozone increases, and fine-scale particulates. Ocean acidification looms on the horizon as the next threat.”
― Patrick J. Michaels, Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Public Science and Public Policy

“We wrote, “The constancy of these somewhat independent results encourages us to conclude that 21st century warming will be modest and near the low end of the IPCC TAR [Third Assessment Report] projections.”
― Patrick J. Michaels, Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face to rule it. —H. L. Mencken”
― Patrick J. Michaels, Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything

“The average of the two is shown. The warming observed by the satellites since 1979 is approximately 0.25°C (0.45°F).”
― Patrick J. Michaels, Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything