sendler2112 said:
Is there anything specifically that Patrick Michaels said that you would like to debunk?
Sure.
He said this in 1992: "Here's an easy prediction: By the year 2000, plus or minus a few, the vogue environmental calamity will be an ice age. And this nouvelle apocalypse, revised version, will predict that global warming will cause sea level to fall, exposing Bangladesh to wrenching cultural changes, and therefore we should give more money to the Third World." No need to comment on whether that happened.
1999: "I'm willing to wager two things. First, I'll bet that anyone who said global warming is an overblown bunch of hooey had a terrible time at this year's holiday cocktail parties. Second, I'll take even money that the 10 years ending on December 31, 2007, will show a statistically significant global cooling trend in temperatures measured by satellite. . . . Starting with 1998, there will almost certainly be a statistically significant cooling trend in the decade ending in 2007." 2005 then set a new temperature record.
In 2013 he said "it's a pretty good bet that we are going to go nearly a quarter of a century without warming." 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 were all warmer than 2013.
In 2001 he said this about the Prius: "[Toyota] already demonstrated the futility of trying to produce the impossible [a hybrid] cheaply. And both were in the process of finding out that gas is so inexpensive in this country (despite its 40 cents per gallon tax) that no one except diehard technophiles and hyper-greens are willing to shell out several thousand extra for a hybrid. . . . both Toyota and Honda let it be known they were losing big bucks on these cars, and neither company, when pressed, would say if or when they would make a profit on them. That's because the answers are no and never." The Prius became the world's third bestselling car by 2012, and has been making a profit for Toyota for over a decade. There is now a line of different Priuses offered by Toyota.
So why is he saying these things? During an interview in 2010:
INTERVIEWER: Can I ask you what percentage of your work is funded by the petroleum industry?
MICHAELS: I don't know. Forty percent? I don't know.