Michael Ernest Christopher Cox OBE (born 10 May 1939) is a former New Zealand politician of the National Party.
He was in the British Merchant Navy, and was a chief officer with the Union Steam Ship Company before becoming a chartered accountant in Palmerston North.
[1] He was an opponent of National's then leader Robert Muldoon and was an organiser in the Colonels' Coup, an abortive attempt to remove him from the leadership of the party.
[7] In 1989 he sought the National Party nomination to stand in the Auckland seat of North Shore at the 1990 election, to replace the retiring George Gair.
[10] Cox has argued that climate change is not caused by humans and has suggested that global warming is "Complete rubbish".