[presidio9]

It's a novel so it can have any plot line the author wants it to.

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.

[jalisco555]

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.

If only he had remembered to include well-developed characters and plausible situations. I think the overall badness of the novel will obscure the important point he was trying to make.

[Frank_Discussion]

The movie was based on The Coming Global Superstorm which was fairly well researched, and also wasn't as so severely slanted as the movie was. I am continually irritated with that fact, since the empirical evidence for superstorms and abrupt climate shifts exist, and predates our industrial age.

We'll experience an abrupt shift someday, but it isn't from my SUV or somebody's gassy cows.