Patrick J. Michaels - Climate Coup: Global Warmings Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives

Roger Pilon is vice president for legal affairs at the Cato Institute where he holds the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies. He is the founder and director of Catos Center for Constitutional Studies and the publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review. He is also an adjunct professor of government at Georgetown University through The Fund for American Studies. Pilons writings have appeared in the nations major media and he is a frequent guest on radio and TV. He lectures and debates at universities and law schools across the country and often testifies before Congress. Prior to joining Cato he held five senior posts in the Reagan administration, including at the departments of State and Justice. He has taught philosophy and law and was a national fellow at Stanfords Hoover Institution. Pilon holds a BA from Columbia University, an MA and a PhD from the University of Chicago, and a JD from the George Washington University School of Law. In 1989 the Bicentennial Commission presented him with the Benjamin Franklin Award for excellence in writing on the U.S. Constitution. In 2001 Columbia Universitys School of General Studies awarded him its Alumni Medal of Distinction.

Evan Turgeon is a legal associate at the Cato Institutes Center for Constitutional Studies. At Cato, he files amicus curiae briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court and revises articles for publication in the Cato Supreme Court Review. He holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.A. in International Relations and German from Tufts University. He has published on energy policy, national security, and economic philosophy.

Patrick J. Michaels is senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute and distinguished senior fellow in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. 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 was also a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia for 30 years. Michaels is a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. His writing has been published in the major scientific journals, and he was an author of the climate paper of the year awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004. He has appeared on most of the worldwide major media. Michaels holds AB and SM degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago, and he received a PhD in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1979.

Ross McKitrick is a professor of economics at the University of Guelph and specializes in environmental economics. He has published many studies on the economic analysis of pollution policy, economic growth and air pollution trends, climate policy options, the measurement of global warming, and statistical methods in paleoclimatology. His latest book is Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press (Fall 2010). He has also published numerous invited book chapters, newspaper and magazine essays, and think-tank reports. In 2003 his (coauthored) book Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics ofGlobal Warming won the Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian Public Policy. Professor McKitrick has been cited in media around the world as an expert on the science and policy of global warming. He has made invited academic presentations in Canada, the United States, and Europe, and has testified before the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliamentary Finance and Environment Committees. In 2006 he was one of 12 experts from around the world asked to brief a panel of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences on paleoclimate reconstruction methodology.

Ivan Eland is senior fellow and director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute. Dr. Eland is a graduate of Iowa State University and received an MBA in applied economics and a PhD in public policy from George Washington University. He has been director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute, and he spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues, including stints as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. He also has served as Evaluator-in-Charge (national security and intelligence) for the U.S. General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office), and has testified on the military and financial aspects of NATO expansion before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on CIA oversight before the House Government Reform Committee, and on the creation of the Department of Homeland Security before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Dr. Eland is the author of Partitioning for Peace: An ExitStrategy for Iraq; Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace,Prosperity, and Liberty; The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign PolicyExposed; Putting "Defense" Back into U.S. Defense Policy; and The Efficacy of Economic Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool.

Sallie James is a policy analyst with the Cato Institutes Center for Trade Policy Studies. Before joining Cato in 2006, James was an executive officer in the Office of Trade Negotiations in the Australian Governments Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where she worked on industrials market access negotiations. James previously served as a senior adviser at the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. She received her bachelor of economics and master of economics degrees from the University of Adelaide, and her PhD in agricultural economics from the University of West-ern Australia.

Dr. Indur M. Goklany is an independent scholar who has worked with federal and state governments, think tanks, and the private sector for over 35 years. He has written extensively on the interactions between globalization, economic development, environmental quality, technological change, climate change, and human well-being. He has been involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as an author, U.S. delegate, and reviewer. He was part of the U.S. team that negotiated the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and was later a delegate to that organization. Goklany managed the emissions trading program in the Environmental Protection Agency. He was the first Julian Simon Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the winner of the Julian Simon Prize and Award in 2007. A long-time proponent of the notion that economic and technological progress assisted by globalization are critical to human and environmental progress, he is the author of Clearing the Air: The Real Story of the War on Air Pollution; The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment; and The Improving State of the World: Why Were Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet, all published by the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.

Robert E. Davis is professor of climatology in the Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Virginia, where he began teaching in 1988. His research emphases include large-scale climatology and climate change, biometeorology, air quality, and coastal storms. Davis research has twice garnered him Climate Paper of the Year awards from the Association of American Geographers, including his research on heat-related mortality trends in the United States. He has served as chair of the Association of American Geographers Climate Specialty Group, chair of the American Meteorological Societys Committee on Biometeorology and Aerobiology, editor of the journal