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A Chilling Tale
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB110263812346896330-H9jfYNjlaZ3o5yuZHSHbKWDm4,00.html ^
Posted on 12/10/2004 7:08:17 PM PST by bikepacker67
In "State of Fear" (HarperCollins, 603 pages, $27.95), Michael Crichton delivers a lightning-paced technopolitical thriller that turns on a controversial notion: All that talk we've been hearing about global warming -- you know, polar ice caps melting, weather systems sent into calamitous confusion, beach weather lingering well into January -- might be at best misguided, at worst dead wrong. Think "The Da Vinci Code" with real facts, violent storms and a different kind of faith altogether.
The book opens with the murder of an American graduate student studying ocean-wave dynamics. ("State of Fear" is the sort of thriller that makes even nerd-occupations seem daring.) A boatyard owner renting deep-sea submarines in Vancouver is also murdered, as is a man purchasing illicit rocket guide wires in London.
We soon learn that such skulduggery is being coordinated, or so it seems, by Nick Drake, a Ralph Nader clone -- intense, single-minded and (apologies to Mr. Nader's many fans) unhinged. He is president of the National Environmental Resource Fund (NERF), an organization founded by lawyers, not scientists, and devoted to pushing a radical environmental agenda. The fund is clearly modeled on the real-life Natural Resources Defense Council, whose annual budget is about the same: $44 million.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bookreview; climatechange; globalwarming; michaelcrichton; stateoffear; theskyisfalling
To: bikepacker67
Guess we won't be seeing the movie any time soon.
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posted on
12/10/2004 7:11:37 PM PST
by
Buck W.
(How can anyone who works for a living vote democrat?)
To: bikepacker67
good read
thanks for the post
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posted on
12/10/2004 7:22:17 PM PST
by
Mr. K
((this space for rent))
To: bikepacker67
We soon learn that such skulduggery is being coordinated, or so it seems, by Nick Drake, a Ralph Nader clone -- intense, single-minded and (apologies to Mr. Nader's many fans) unhinged.
I would say the latter goes without saying.
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posted on
12/10/2004 7:26:01 PM PST
by
swilhelm73
(Dowd wrote that Kerry was defeated by a "jihad" of Christians...Finally – a jihad liberals oppose!)
To: Buck W.
Maybe Mel Gibson can produce it. :)
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posted on
12/10/2004 7:26:20 PM PST
by
swilhelm73
(Dowd wrote that Kerry was defeated by a "jihad" of Christians...Finally – a jihad liberals oppose!)
To: Buck W.
Naw, the movie will be made if the book is best seller. Someone will want the $$$.
To: Woodworker
Naw, the movie will be made if the book is best seller Well, maybe, but with a few minor changes, like The Sum of all Fears.
The villians will be changed from environmentalists to white coporate Nazis. And Ralph Nader will star in the picture as the hero.
To: Buck W.
Guess we won't be seeing the movie any time soon.Unless a Mel Gibson produces it.
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posted on
12/10/2004 7:58:32 PM PST
by
ThanhPhero
( Nguoi di hanh huong den La Vang)
To: Woodworker
Naw, the movie will be made if the book is best seller. Someone will want the $$$. I'm sure the book will be a best seller, but given the very anti-conservative climate in the Hollywood community lately, fat chance. As others have said, only Mel Gibson's Icon Productions could produce this film.
To: bikepacker67
In the movie version they'll somehow figure out how to turn the enviormentalists into neo-nazis.
To: bikepacker67
Just bought it this morning, now it seems like a good choice.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:37:27 PM PST
by
Brasil
("The path to safety is the path of action." GWB)
To: Brasil
I got dibs when you're done.
To: bikepacker67
Weather War...
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:59:03 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©® - Dubya... F**K YEAH!!!)
To: skip_intro
The villians will be changed from environmentalists to white coporate Nazis.Naah.
That's so Nineties.
The current ultimate baddie has to be...
*gasp*
A white Christian heterosexual!
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posted on
12/11/2004 12:02:26 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
To: bikepacker67; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; adam_az; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
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posted on
12/11/2004 12:05:32 AM PST
by
farmfriend
( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
To: farmfriend
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posted on
12/11/2004 3:02:33 AM PST
by
E.G.C.
To: bikepacker67
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posted on
12/11/2004 9:12:42 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
To: bikepacker67
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posted on
12/11/2004 12:25:32 PM PST
by
Drew68
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