You forget to add:
. . . by world renowned climatologist Michael Crichton.
Oh wait, he is a world renowned writer of fiction.
What difference does it make though really. Thousands of scientists on the one hand, a fiction writer on the other.
If this were a debate about Christianity, would you site Dan Brown?
Michael Crichton may not be a climatologist, but he does have a scientific background. He understands the scientific method and the apropriate way to conduct scientific studies.
CRICHTON, (John) Michael. American. Born in Chicago, Illinois, October 23, 1942. Educated at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.B. (summa cum laude) 1964 (Phi Beta Kappa). Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellow, 1964-65. Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at Cambridge University, England, 1965. Graduated Harvard Medical School, M.D. 1969; post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California 1969-1970. Visiting Writer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988.