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To: Lane3 who wrote (167714)	5/26/2006 2:02:13 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793845

Intesting....Throughout all of that, I looked for a Bio for Gore re Global Warming/Environmental issues...and found none. I did find this re Patrick Michaels. Maybe his PhD doesn't mean anything.... Gore's PhD is in ....hhhhhmmmmmmm....well... The scientists don't agree. Gore isn't a scientist. In fact, I wonder who funded Gore's movie....and what their interest is... cato.org Patrick J. Michaels Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies Pat Michaels is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. According to Nature magazine, Michaels is one of the most popular lecturers in the nation on the subject of global warming. 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. Michaels is a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was an author of the 2003 climate science "Paper of the Year" awarded by the Association of American Geographers, for the demonstration that urban heat-related mortality declined significantly as cities became warmer. His writing has been published in the major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science; and his articles have appeared also in the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, and the Journal of Commerce. He has appeared on ABC, NPR's All Things Considered, PBS, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC and Voice of America. He holds A.B. and S.M. degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago, and he received his Ph.D. in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1979. Media Contact: 202-789-5200 To Book a Speaking Engagement: 202-789-5226 E-Mail: pmichaels@cato.org