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Michaels is also associated with a number of [[think tanks]] and advocacy groups which dispute global warming. He is a Visiting Scientist with the [[George C. Marshall Institute]], a Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies with the [[Cato Institute]]<ref>[http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels "Patrick J. Michaels: Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies"], Cato Institute, accessed May 2009.</ref> and a member of the Advisory Board of the [[Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow]].<ref name="CFACT">[http://www.cfact.org/site/advisors.asp Advisory Board], Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, accessed May 2009.</ref>  Michaels is also a [[ACSH Scientific advisors | Scientific Advisor]] of the [[American Council on Science and Health]]<ref>{{cite web|publisher=ACSH|title=Scientific Advisors &gt; About ACSH|url=http://www.acsh.org/about/pageID.89/default.asp|accessdate=2010-12-08|author=No byline|date=Undated|quote=Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D.; University of Virginia}}</ref>.

In a 1992 opinion column, Micheals Michaels wrote of government agencies that they "exist to perpetuate themselves, and to expand their territory and their political influence. Government agencies behave just like people. The agency goals cannot be accomplished without the largesse of Congress. Thus begins a peculiar back-scratching in which political patrons define a particular problem as The Most Important in History. The agency responds by testifying that the end is near unless a few billion is spent pronto-and then it probably will be even worse than we thought. Such issues and constituencies include the ozone "hole" (NASA, NSF, EPA); global warming (NASA, NSF, DOE, EPA); sexually transmitted diseases (National Institutes of Health, NSF); or roughage shortages (NIH, U.S. Department of Agriculture). The list is as infinite as is the predilection for Homo sapiens to have nightmares."<ref>Patrick J. Michaels, [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/pmc52c00/pdf?search=%22patrick%20j%20michaels%22 "Give Industry a Bigger Role (Title incomplete"], ''Roanoke Times'', December 29, 1992.</ref>

Michaels ' prominence also led to new funding from fossil fuel interests. In 1991-92 an anonymous donor made of grant of $50,000 to Michaels for his work on climate change, the Edison Electric Institute paid $25,000 between 1992 and 1995 for a literature review of climate change and updates. Western Fuels Association contributed $63,000 for "research on global climate change" and between 1994 $98,000 from Gesamtverband des Deutschen Stenkohlenbergbaus in Germany.<ref name="SEJ"/> As Michaels ' corporate funding was taking off, in 1994 he founded and is the sole owner of [[New Hope Environmental Services]], which refers to itself as "an advocacy science consulting firm". Aside from publishing the [[World Climate Report]], the firm boasts that its staff often provide testimony to Congress and commentary on climate issues to media outlets.<ref name="NH">[http://www.nhes.com/ "New Hope Environmental Services"], New Hope Environmental Services website, accessed May 2009.</ref>.

* [[Joel Achenbach]], "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301305.html The Tempest:] As evidence mounts that humans are causing dangerous changes in Earth's climate, a handful of skeptics are providing some serious blowback", ''The Washington Post Magazine'', May 28, 2006.