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Unlike the "silly science" of Crichton, a group of 300 scientists recently concluded that the Arctic is warming much more rapidly than previously known.

And I suppose "The Day After Tomorrow" is based on sound science.

This guy is really out there. It's hard to believe the level of hateful, venomous rant that this guy spewed out over a movie. It's a movie! Who cares you weaselly little scum! What is it that scares this guy so much about one movie that has a message he doesn't agree with? Perhaps he's afraid the public will start demanding REAL scientific studies on the issue of "global warming".

The Earth IS getting warmer right now. It's done it in the past and I'm sure it will do it in the future. These global cycles of warming and cooling are nothing new. It's been well documented.

Also, someone should tell this idiot that CO2 is plant food!

This is the kind of hard science the columnist is talking about:

Study Claiming Rapid Arctic Ice Melt Refuted at Climate Summit
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
December 14, 2004

Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNSNews.com) - A researcher who predicts a rapid melt in the Arctic region presented his findings to participants at the United Nations climate change conference here on Monday, but many conference participants questioned the validity of the science used in the study.

Robert Corell, the chair of the international Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), summed up the findings of his group's report, saying, "We are now experiencing some very rapid and severe climate change in the Arctic."

The study, entitled "Impacts of a Warming Arctic," concludes that climate change will accelerate over the next 100 years, "contributing to major physical, ecological, social and economic changes," Corell said during his presentation to a packed conference room at the meeting.

Corell warned that the rise in sea levels from the projected melting of Greenland's ice shelf could have major impacts on coastal areas worldwide.

But Myron Ebell of the free market environmental group Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) refuted Corell and his international commission's report on Arctic melting.

"The temperature graph [of the Arctic used in the ACIA study] does not agree with any of the known [temperature] data sets for the Arctic. In other words, who knows where they got this data from," Ebell told CNSNews.com.

Actually, the science cited in Crichton's book---and he CITES REAL STUDIES---show that we are in the midst of a slight cooling trend over the past 50 years, although overall we are in a warming trend. In other words, for 1500 years its been getting warmer, but recently that has slowed, stopped, or even reversed a little, depending on the measurement. Check out his studies in there. Awesome.