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Posted on 02/20/2007 4:50:43 PM PST by PJ-Comix
This is really fascinating. Check out the VIDEO of Charlie Rose interviewing Michael Crichton on the subject of Global Warming. The Global Warming discussion starts at exactly 22 minutes into the video.
Yes, soon questioning the validity of the global warming sham will a form of heresy or hate speech....
Crichton offered to debate a Global Warming "scientist" on the Charlie Rose show if he could be allowed to illustrate his points with graphs in the studio. Rose agreed. If and when that show is broadcast, it should be VERRRRRRY interesting. BTW, have any of the Global Warming types ever been in a real debate with a scientist?
Yeah. I notice how RELUCTANT the Global Warming folks are to debate their case. They basically say CASE CLOSED so there can be no debate. I compare Global Warming Dogma to the Lysenko Dogma in the old Soviet Union.
I think a Crichton/Algore smackdown is in the works! Dueling PowerPoints!
I don't think Algore would accept such a debate. He prefers controlled formats which consist of unthinking adulation. Case in point: his inevitable Academy Award for his "documentary."
The problem I have with the current Global Warming proponents is that they're starting to make it into a sort of religion: "Do you BELIEVE in Global Warming?"
Will "Global Warming Deniers" be ostracized or even imprisoned ala "Holocaust denier" Ernst Zundel?
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Mark Steyn called Crichton's State of Fear novel a "gleeful attack on the enviro-hucksters."
You always hear this is killing us or that is killing us but nobody seems to notice that people are living longer than we ever have. So if all these things are killing us, how can we be living longer than ever before?
The reality is all these things are not killing us and we are going to be just fine.
However, though he doesn't buy the conclusions Algore comes to, he likes Algore. He even hints that he would have liked a President Algore.
None the less, he isn't on the catastrophic global warming band wagon. Is there global warming? Yes. Are humans contributing to global warming? Yes.
But, that's where he stops and he certainly doesn't buy into the politicized movement to spend lots of money to "fix" global warming.
It's a very good interview for Crichton fans.
This is Crichton's very informative page-turner novel about the subject, State of Fear. Here is a reader review from the Barnes and Noble web site:
Sgt. W.N. Ferguson, a police officer / Rennaisance Man, 12/30/2006
Environmental terrorists spanked
Yes, the characters were put in too many jams to believe but the spanking dealt to the environmental extremists (terrorists) was too good to pass up. I am an environmentalist who does not believe in human induced global warming. A contradiction in terms? No, just displaying good common sense supported by fact. State of Fear backs up what I already knew. I am buying a hardcopy for a radical environmentalist jerk in the National Park Service next door...if he has the stones to read it...
Sell me an engine that is powerful, rarely breaks down and is extremely fuel efficient and I'll buy it. We'd be hard pressed to find any one who would rather have some noisy smoke blower in its place.
I'd really like to save money on gasoline, or whatever will push my truck. Add to that the benefit of sticking it to the Gulf Oil Islamo-Empires and Hugo Chavez, and I'm sold!
I really, really thought he was trying to be polite when it came to the questions of voting for Algore. Dr Crichton really did not want to get into it but Rose kept pressing. Finally he gave a nonanswer answer that revealed nothing.
Also, notice how Rose kept refering to "Bush" but with Gore it was always Al Gore. That'd be fine if Rose said it right. It's Algore--no space after Al.
You sound like the type of guy who would appreciate the Tesla Roadster, which was meant for people like us, albiet perhaps at a lower eventual price point.
In the mean time, the site and blog are great reads:
http://www.teslamotors.com/
Hope you enjoy.
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Seen in the context of history the internal combustion engine is a complete marvel. Those who denounce it or assume it can easily be replaced are just Luddites. I like Crighton, too. This is the first time I have seen him unscripted.
Rose is such a weasel. He says Michael Crichton is wrong on global warming - but, he just can't prove it.
Crichton is still a lefty, though (He was "for the carbon tax 25 years ago"). It's just that he is not an alarmist or a catasphrophist, as he put it.
At moments, he seemed to hold parallel views. (I think that's the scientist in him.)
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