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							<title><![CDATA[A Code Red for Climate Alarmism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/the-uns-ipcc-report-is-a-code-red-for-climate-alarmism</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This seems odd: This summer, the United Nations's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the near-final version of its Sixth Assessment Report, an apparently comprehensive survey of the climate literature since the last one in 2014.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Australia Fires Caused by Humans, Not Climate Change]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/australian-wildfires-were-caused-by-humans-not-climate-change</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alarmists have been quick to blame climate change for the recent, horrific fires in Australia and California. Although human actions do bear a large share of the blame for the scale of this ongoing tragedy, the cause is primarily bad management policies, not dreaded climate change....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Great Failure of the Climate Models]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/the-great-failure-of-the-climate-models</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Computer models of the climate are at the heart of calls to ban the cheap, reliable energy that powers our thriving economy and promotes healthier, longer lives. For decades, these models have projected dramatic warming from small, fossil-fueled increases in atmospheric concentrations of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's EPA Will Make Obama Regret His Overreach]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/309484-trumps-epa-pick-will-make-obama-regret-his</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nomination for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is as clear a signal as the incoming administration can send with regard to its environmental policies. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  It is also a sign that the administration is far more meticulous,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Modern Science Polluted?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/is-modern-science-polluted/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, scientists and non-scientists alike have complained that something is fundamentally wrong with the way we do this business. Something has corrupted the integrity of our science.This is a serious charge because it means that more and more government policy -- from limiting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Climate Snow Job]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Climate+Snow+Job&amp;oq=The+Climate+Snow+Job&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.64j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An East Coast blizzard howling, global temperatures peaking, the desert Southwest flooding, drought-stricken California drying up'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'surely there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a common thread tying together this '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'extreme'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' weather. There is. But it has little to do with what recent headlines have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Warming Hype Lead to Scientific Dark Age?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmichaels/2014/02/03/will-the-overselling-of-global-warming-lead-to-a-new-scientific-dark-age/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will the overselling of climate change lead to a new scientific dark age? That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the question being posed in the latest issue of an Australian literary journal, Quadrant, by Garth Paltridge, one of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most respected atmospheric scientists.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The IPCC Political Suicide Pill]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/27/the_ipcc_political_suicide_pill_120108.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Friday, the United Nations'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is going to release its much-anticipated fifth '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'scientific assessment'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of global warming. Like its 2007 predecessor, the document will be a ready poison pill for those contemplating political...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Tesla Would Stop Selling Cars, We'd All Save Some Money]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/29/if_tesla_would_stop_selling_cars_wed_all_save_some_money_118592.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First of all, let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s stipulate that the Tesla model S is a pretty cool looking car, that the high-end version accelerates like a rocket, and that its massive, low center of gravity pretty much inures it against a rollover. Next, let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s congratulate Elon Musk on paying off his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Climate Horror Picture Show, Brought to You by Dodgy Science]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/19/the_climate_horror_picture_show_brought_to_you_by_dodgy_science_118043.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pop quiz. Who wrote this:
'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'?

a) Someone who does not know how to write
b) The Koch Brothers
c) The Cato Institute
d) The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Maybe They Should Just Call It the Chevy &quot;Vote&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmichaels/2012/03/08/maybe-it-should-be-called-the-chevrolet-vote/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Chevrolet Volt is everything that is wrong with Washington on four wheels, and investors (that'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s you and me) should be furious.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All Dressed Up In Green, GM's Volt Flops]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/gm_flop_in_green_cSgFeqJfSLWcvruADOr4zO</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the Detroit Auto Show this week, CEO Dan Akerson admitted that General Motors may have to cut back production of the Chevrolet Volt because the 4,600-plus Volts on the market now are about three times the monthly sales. Other figures put the GM hybrid car'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s inventory at an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Great Green Energy Crack-Up]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmichaels/2011/10/21/the-great-green-energy-crack-up/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chevy Volt: Flagship of Govt-Industrial Complex]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmichaels/2011/08/19/chevy-volt-flagship-model-of-the-government-industrial-complex/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Hasn't the Earth Warmed in 15 Years?]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.forbes.com/patrickmichaels/2011/07/15/why-hasnt-the-earth-warmed-in-nearly-15-years/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is no statistically significant warming trend since November of  1996 in monthly surface temperature records compiled at the University  of East Anglia. Do we now understand why there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been no change in  fourteen and a half years?If you read the news stories surrounding a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Big Government Has Distorted Science]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.forbes.com/patrickmichaels/2011/07/08/big-science-big-government/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My lobby, the American Association for the Advancement of Science  (AAAS) isn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t located in Washington, D.C., because its employees are fond  of the city'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s heat and humidity in the summer.  No, it is here to be  close to Congress and the president, to have access to largely  sympathetic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voodoo Economics? Try Voodoo Climate Science]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.forbes.com/patrickmichaels/2011/04/21/voodoo-economics-how-about-voodoo-climate-science/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When will our greener friends at the UN learn that it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s just not a  good idea to make definite predictions about certain disasters?This time they have been called out on their 2005 prediction that by  now there would be 50 million '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'climate refugees'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'people choosing to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chevy Volt: The Car from Atlas Shrugged Motors]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/2011/03/16/chevy-volt-ayn-rand-opinions-patrick-michaels.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Chevrolet Volt is beginning to look like it was manufactured by  Atlas Shrugged Motors, where the government mandates everything  politically correct, rewards its cronies and produces junk steel.This  is the car that subsidies built. General Motors lobbied for a $7,500  tax refund...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The EPA'S Odd View of 'Consumer Choice']]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/19/the_epas_odd_view_of_consumer_choice_107637.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed in a "Notice of Intent" that passenger vehicle fuel economy average as much as 62 miles per gallon 14 years from now. The agency was able to arrive at this lofty mark by conveniently ignoring everything we know about the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climategate Whitewash Continues]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704075604575356611173414140.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last November there was a world-wide outcry when a trove of emails were released suggesting some of the world's leading climate scientists engaged in professional misconduct, data manipulation and jiggering of both the scientific literature and climatic data to paint what scientist Keith...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Bill Costs Outweigh Benefits]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/bam_climate_rx_all_pain_no_gain_rrEOObpwCeZkI43QmmKH4O</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The cap-and-trade bill that the House passed last summer aims to  force Americans to reduce those dreaded carbon emissions by 83 percent  in less than four decades -- to the same per-capita level as 1867. Yet,  even under the Al Gore-approved climate-science models, the bill would  do...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Manufacture Climate Consensus]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704398304574598230426037244.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Few people understand the real significance of Climategate, the now-famous hacking of emails from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Most see the contents as demonstrating some arbitrary manipulating of various climate data sources in order to fit preconceived...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The More You Know, the Less You Care]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/23/the_more_you_know_the_less_you_care_96129.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What on Earth is going on in Washington? The public believes less and less that human beings are responsible for global warming, surface temperature shows no net change in over a decade, and there's still a bill about to be debated in the House that will require the average American in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Al Gore: The Grand Exaggerator]]></title>
							<link>http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzMwNzI1N2FjOWE1ZWNhMzg2MjBlODlhZjFlMTYyNDg</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Michaels</author>
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