Patrick Michaels points out that governments are all too often the worst offenders in the room when it comes to pollution and environmental destruction.

Patrick J. Michaels was the director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Michaels 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. He was a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for thirty years.

Produced by Mark McDaniel.

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