I just re-read "State of Fear" and it occurred to me: Michael Crichton was assassinated. He died too young.
In a really gripping fictional story, he wrote truth with footnoted sources to prove and expose that blatant fraud of environmentalist climate claims. Every American grade school kid should have State of Fear in required reading. And tell them: It's by the same guy who wrote "Jurassic Park."
The global warming fraud could only take hold over ignorant, passive saps. Like primitives who believed it when British explores with almanacs "called down" an eclipse of the sun. The mechanisms that move the earth are so far beyond us that we have only even existed for a nanosecond in relative time.
Climate records of 100 years, or even 500 years -- or even 50,000 years -- are so minute in the actual scale that it's ludicrous to even think our lifespans, or 500 of our lifespans, would be enough to detect a significant change. All you have to do is to look at the spikes in a graph chart and zero-in on a timespan of, say, 1,000 years (a speck on the chart), to see how insane it is to presume to even predict, let alone manipulate, climate and weather.
Michael Crichton's voice is missed. He had crossover reach, being successful in the mass entertainment world of television, movies, and books with the real academic achievement and intellect to give credence to his opinions. See if you can dig up his essay Aliens Caused Global Warming. The title is deliberately tongue-in-cheek.