A friend lent me Michael Crichton’s State of Fear.
I don’t want to say too much about it because, I have discovered since I finished reading it yesterday, people don’t want to hear what you have to say when you’re talking about it. I might be sounding a little evasive here, but that’s necessary. Crichton provides links etc. for some of the claims his characters make and, to be quite honest, it’s a little perplexing.
What troubles me most is that a quick look around the internet finds sensationalist propaganda like: “We must act now to stop climate change”. How exactly are we going to do that when even the most scurrilous self-publicist knows that global warming is not a pure human-caused (anthropological) event. Global warming describes the warming of the globe. Climate change is something that has happened since we first had an atmosphere — why would we want to stop it?
I am not naive enough to think that Crichton doesn’t have an agenda, but I urge you to read the book and at least see something of the alternative argument that is never made on the MSM.
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#1 by Ken on October 15th, 2006 - 12:55 pm
Testing
#2 by John King on October 15th, 2006 - 11:14 pm
Michael Chrichton has made a living from being controversial and this is just another desperate attempt by him to get media coverage to sell a book.
I wonder if he’ll be proved right in 50 years? Oh, I forgot, he’ll be dead then.
#3 by Gav on October 16th, 2006 - 10:01 am
This is the reaction I have received — as I say, people don’t like environMENTALISM being criticised even though it is unlikely any climatologist will be quite so unequivocal.
Speak to your most scientific contact and ask them: “Is the fact that global warming is human-caused and avoidable as certain as the millenium bug?”
#4 by Ken on October 16th, 2006 - 10:57 am
Still testing
#5 by David B. WIldgoose on October 17th, 2006 - 12:13 am
Science is about having an hypothesis which is testable and falsifiable.
The Global Warming agitators aren’t willing to allow their beliefs to be questioned – hence what they are arguing for is not science but their beliefs, i.e. their “religion”.
Global Warming is happening. It has also happened before, when humans were not present on the planet. It seems remarkably arrogant and highly improbable to assume that it is happening now solely because of us.