Anyone who read Micheal crichton's 'State of fear' and still believe in Global warming?

Question

Anyone who read Micheal crichton's 'State of fear' and still believe in Global warming?

Answer 1

Chrichton himself believes in GW. He just doesn't believe it is a crisis. Why would someone come to a belief based on a book of fiction?

Answer 2

I read it.  It is full of scientific charts and facts and figures.  In fact it is more like reading a text book.  I found it one of his worst books but I do agree with his conclusions on global warming.  It is largely a grossly exaggerated phenomena.

Answer 3

I tend not base important decisions on works of fiction.

Has anyone seen any cloned veloceraptors lately.

Answer 4

Anyone who reads the real scientific literature (vs. fiction) for the source of their science, probably still believes in Global Warming.

Review of Michael Crichton's State of Fear

http://www.wunderground.com/education/st...

Bad Science, Bad Fiction

http://www.csicop.org/doubtandabout/cric...

Cold, Hard Facts

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/opinio...

Our results have been misused as “evidence” against global warming by Michael Crichton in his novel “State of Fear” - Dr. Peter Doran

Michael Crichton's State of Confusion:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/arc...

Answer 5

Yes, because I have seen the evidence with my own eyes.

Answer 6

I tend to base my beliefs on scientific literature rather than fiction.

http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/clim...

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library...

Answer 7

This is not an answer actually.  I am curious about this book, 'State of Fear' by Michael Crichton.  What does it say, anyway?

Answer 8

Sure.  Just about every scientist in the world.  And those people who don't get their science from a novel by a science fiction writer.

Answer 9

The Global warming movement is all about control and money.  The pundits want you to believe in their new religion (I say religion, because the facts do not support their conclusions).  

CNG cars are the most efficient cars on the road.  Honda builds a Civic EX for 25K that is greener than the Prius.  Fill up for 93 cents per gallon.  That leads to the obvious question why is it the only one?

Natural gas deposits occur on every land fill in the United States - not to mention untapped reserves on the east coast.  

It make you wonder why government subsidies are going to Ethanol - based on corn which does nothing more than drive the price of food up.  Sugar cane is 8 time more efficient.  It is hard to quantify whether you have  a net energy gain when using Ethanol.  Most studies indicate a deficit of energy - you have to put more energy (petroleum into it than you get out).  The environmental impact is marginal at best.

Looks like a transfer of wealth from Petroleum interest to Farm interest, and associated politicians in the mid-west.  Anyone ever heard of ADM?

Last regarding Ethanol - cars are not designed to run on it.  Sure it will burn, but the compression ratio should be increase to around 12:1 to get max power verses gasoline 8:3 to 9:1. You cannot do that on the fly.

Volcano's do spue out a significant amount of CO2. Actually 300 times more than man every year. The entire Environmental Movement is concentrating on this new propaganda line of CO2 as a means of exercising control. This an other means (Gasoline, and Food) have been how they have been manipulating public opinion to believe in their cause.

The SUN is what warms the earth, and it is in an active state. It has been projected by 2015 cooling will be re-initiated as the cycle is expected to end.

What really causes global warming is the lack of cloud cover. When the Earth is showered in Solar winds not as many clouds develop allowing the sun to radiate more. However contrary to published opinion the earth's troposphere is not heating up as would occur if carbon was accumulating like Venus.