Not exact matches
Hanley does acknowledge that
Michaels was originally appointed state
climatologist by Gov. John Dalton in 1980.
Katherine K. Hanley, the secretary of the commonwealth, wrote University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III on Thursday, asking that
Michaels «avoid any conflict of interest or appearance thereof
by scrupulously avoiding the use of the title of state
climatologist in con - nection with any outside activities or private consulting endeavors.»
In her letter, Hanley asked that
Michaels «avoid any conflict of interest or appearance thereof
by scrupulously avoiding the use of the title of state
climatologist in connection with any outside activities or private consulting endeavors.»
While
Michaels referred to himself as the State
Climatologist for Virginia, in August 2006 the Governor, Timothy M. Kaine, clarified that the appointment was one
by the University for its accredited climatology office but not an appointment
by the state administration.
While
Michaels had been appointed to the position in 1980
by the then Governor John Dalton, in 2000 the American Association of State
Climatologists assumed responsibility for certifying c
Climatologists assumed responsibility for certifying
climatologistsclimatologists.
Using a climate calculator and model developed
by the EPA,
climatologists Paul Knappenberger and Pat
Michaels project that the EPA's climate regulations will mitigate 0.02 of a degree Celsius warming
by the end of the century.
In the Preface to Climate of Extremes former Virginia State
Climatologist Michaels describes how he and other state
climatologists were stripped of their titles, and jobs, and told
by their governors to à cents â?
It's the latter detail which has led former Virginia State
Climatologist Pat
Michaels — one of the skeptics who might have been affected
by Shukla's proposed RICO prosecutions — to describe this as «the largest science scandal in US history.»
«
Michaels» role as state
climatologist — a role that we feel ought to be completely neutral — seems compromised
by his other interests.»
You'll quickly run across Pat
Michaels, the University of Virginia
climatologist and author of Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming
by Scientists, Politicians and the Media.
Chris Folland, presentation to
climatologists, August 13, 1991, Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming
by Patrick
Michaels (Cato Institute, 1992), p. 83