Posted on 01/28/2005 7:29:42 AM PST by presidio9
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I highly recommend this book. It's much better than Prey was ;)
Prey sucked.
Chrichton is right.
In all of creation, only arrogant man would actually believe that he is able to thwart God or irretrievably alter his creation and go beyond the boundries he has set.
Just for starters:
Who were the 18? How were they selected for interview? In what way is this professor of physics you quoted a climate scientist?
And what did the idiot scientists say about that loony movie that was all the lefty rage before the election?
It's a novel so it can have any plot line the author wants it to.
Scientists don't operate on the basis of how many agree and how many disagree on something. This gives away the liberal slant because that's the way liberal journalists think: the truth is identified by how big a majority believe it. "Science by consensus is a liberal fantasy.
Good for Chrichton!
Crichton is right on the science but State of Fear is a terrible novel. The characters are completely undeveloped and the situations in the novel are ridiculous. It read like a hastily written first draft. The man needs a new editor.
Crichton drops in graphs and footnotes to buttress his contention that global warming isn't a real problem.
Wrong. Crichton drops in graphs and footnotes to buttress his conclusion that the evidence for global warming is a very, very great deal less sound than environmentalists think it is -- both as to whether it's occurring at all and as to whether human beings are contributing to it if it is occurring. He doesn't claim it isn't a real problem; he says that's an open question and it's way too early to get excited about it.
It would sure be nice if journalists covering this debate would get straight what the various parties do and don't claim.
Yes, it is better
than Prey, but this book sucks, too.
Nothing but lawyers
talking to lawyers,
then Martin Sheen gets eaten.
One good scene. That's it.
Last year was the fourth hottest ever recorded. The five hottest years on record have all occurred since 1998. The 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 1990. The last month to record below-average temperature was July 1985.
SO? How does that implicate man-made causes?
Agreed, but then again the Martin Sheen character gets sliced up and eaten alive by "peaceful" tribesmen in touch with nature, and that scene alone was worth the price of the book.
Well, the book had it's moments but it was still terrible overall.
The eugenics parallel was pretty well put, I agree. However, dreck it was.
...The overwhelming majority of climate scientists say the world is warming, mainly because of emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The biggest increase in those gases comes from the burning of fossil fuels. U.S. and foreign authorities predict a 5-degree Fahrenheit increase in the world’s average temperature by the end of the century. Ice sheets are melting, and species of birds and animals have moved to new areas because of warming.
Climate scientists? Do you guys just want more money? I had a conversation with an astronomy professor who said there was not a single astrophysicist he knew believed that the empirical data supported man causes global warming, which will lead to catastrophe. There is not enough information to make a conclusion.
I'm not a huge Crichton fan, but the difference between this book and "The Day After Tomorrow" is that Crichton actually researched the topic, and included footnotes for all the sceintific points he made.
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