Bill Gates, global warming, and Davos

The American Thinker ^ | Feb. 1, 2005 | Richard Baehr

[Kitten Festival]

The New York Times has now reviewed Michael Crichton's latest novel State of Fear twice, both times scathingly. In the Sunday Book Review Section on January 29th, the reviewer, Bruce Barcott, an editor of Outside Magazine, pins the left's ultimate smear on the author - that his book resembles nothing so much as an Ann Coulter-style assault from the right on the accepted wisdom about man made climate change, namely global warming resulting from our emissions of “greenhouse “ gases.

Crichton's book, despite the less than critical acclaim from reviewers, has moved to number 4 on the Times fiction best seller list. It will probably go higher. Crichton is an accomplished novelist, and many of his books have been turned into successful movies- Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, The Lost World, Andromeda Strain, Disclosure, Congo. There must be great fear in the environmental movement that Crichton's latest effort will become a paperback bestseller read by millions, and then a hit movie. Though it might take a Hollywood producer with the courage and deep pockets of Mel Gibson to bring such a politically incorrect story to the big screen.

[Kitten Festival]

A superb essay about Bill Gates' taste for junk science. It's sad.

[CIDKauf]

Global warming has been cramed down the throats of Americans for a decade plus, by the main stream media. Al Gore said following the 1994 elections that global warming was the single most importamt issue of our time. Despite attacks on the WTC of '93, and other terror threats, this was the topic that liberals use to try and effect the outcome of elections in America. Even though the US Senate voted 95-0 to not endorse the Kyoto conference and its demands on the Western world, it now comes that the data used, and the premises for this climatological effect are probably wrong, and are certainly not being backed by the annual data that comes in regarding these "dangers". What other topics has the media been shoving at us, and are they an agenda or the truth?