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Greenhouse Gas [Crichton is deceiving you! You're all doooooooomed for not believing. Oh, BARF!]
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| May 2005
| Joseph Romm
Posted on 04/06/2005 11:05:38 PM PDT by Brian328i
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Did some searches and found nothing on this, just popped up on news.ask.com tonight so thought you'd all like to laugh.
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posted on
04/06/2005 11:05:39 PM PDT
by
Brian328i
To: Brian328i
We're doomed. Doomed! DOOMED!!!
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posted on
04/06/2005 11:08:28 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I thank God Almighty for a most remarkable blessing: John Paul the Great.)
To: Brian328i
Good point. Crichton wrote 'Eaters of the Dead,' which was an attractive paperback because of the line art. The story itself, about what Vikings found frightening, was a little simplistic, but not bad for an early novel.
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posted on
04/06/2005 11:09:28 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(50 trillion sovereign cells working together in relative harmony)
To: Brian328i
Yup, he wrote a FICTION book, and he is under attack for misrepresentation of facts. I'm sorry, but anybody who trusts a fiction book to make decision is stupid. They are meant to be enjoyed, and I, personally, rather enjoy reading Crichton's work.
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posted on
04/06/2005 11:12:42 PM PDT
by
Celtic Rose
(It may be prudent in me to act sometimes by other men's reason, but I can think only by my own)
To: Brian328i
I'll bet that Crichton can prove the points he made in the book.
The premise of the book is "follow the Money".
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posted on
04/06/2005 11:20:16 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(MESOCONS FOR RICE '08)
To: Celtic Rose
Yes, except MC did a rather cute trick, he included charts, graphs and footnotes in a work of fiction.
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posted on
04/06/2005 11:22:13 PM PDT
by
durasell
(Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
To: durasell
all part of the story probably. Tolkein did similar things with LOtR
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posted on
04/06/2005 11:27:55 PM PDT
by
JennMack
To: JennMack
Lord of the Rings wasn't about "science."
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posted on
04/06/2005 11:29:09 PM PDT
by
durasell
(Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
To: Brian328i
Meh. Uninformed liberals like to shout "Global Warming" and then call anyone who laughs at them "ignorant of scientific facts."
Well, I've got your facts right here. The Earth's climate is actually colder than it has been through most of the planet's history. Also, we have evidence in the geologic record of very rapid climate changes in the Tertiary Period. Many of these changes included temperature increases much more drastic than what we're undergoing today, and these increases happened on a timescale of decades without human help. Right now, there's not really any scientific evidence at all to show that what we're doing is having much effect at all.
So why is this such a big issue, why do "scientists" keep talking about it? Simple. There's money to be made. Now that the sickeningly-uninformed public has largely bought into it, many scientists have made their careers out of fear-mongering. If the public were to all of a sudden realize that the evidence doesn't exist, a lot of people would have to study an actual problem for a lot less money.
To: durasell
Michael Crichton apparently took 3 years to write the book, and even though it is set in a fictional novel, reflects his personal conclusions. At least this is what I read from an interview transcript.
I would say he argues his points persuasively in the context of a fictional novel. While he is no environmental "expert", he is an intelligent, well educated person who knows how to reach logical conclusions.
This is more than can be said for many of the rabid "real" environmental "experts".
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posted on
04/07/2005 2:56:07 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Teresa Heinz-Kerry, better known as Kerry's "Noisy Two Legged ATM")
To: Brian328i
Who would you believe, Michael Crichton or Ted Danson?
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posted on
04/07/2005 2:59:48 AM PDT
by
Pete'sWife
(Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
To: Brian328i
Crichton portrays environmentalists as uninformed, hypocritical, or simply evil.
That's pretty much how I see it.
To: sauropod
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posted on
04/07/2005 4:08:58 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(Life under Dictatorship is far more safer, than behind the bars of your democracy. - Iraq Mujahadeen)
To: durasell
Yes, except MC did a rather cute trick, he included charts, graphs and footnotes in a work of fiction.MC researched the facts in preparation for this book without automatically buying into the religion of man-made global warming. He sought the facts, not the catachism - that upsets some folks.
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posted on
04/07/2005 4:10:26 AM PDT
by
jimfree
(Freep and ye shall find.)
To: Mike Darancette
Crichton included sources and footnotes to actual scientific studies, and one of the most amazing things is that the studies often contradict the ABSTRACTS. This is rather key, since many idiots never actually look at the studies, especially the environ-weenies.
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posted on
04/07/2005 4:24:03 AM PDT
by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrak of news)
To: Brian328i
Crichton's Cal Tech
lecture.Highly recommended.
To: Brian328i
Liberals are hysterical when their dogma is questioned. "The sky is falling, the sky is falling"! (laughing)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:56:31 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Brian328i
Global warming is real. Stars the size of our sun, expand in size as they age, so our sun is getting larger every year. I don't think the expansion is linear, but the Sun is getting bigger, and as it does the Earth will get warmer and there ain't nothing to be done about it with our current or near future technology. In fact in the future the earth will become so hot that the entire planet will melt, just before the expanding Sun comsumes the entire inner sloar system. So yea, global warming is real.
A billion years ago the Earth was a ball of ice, today it's a ball of water and billion years from now the earth will be a ball of steam.
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posted on
04/07/2005 9:09:10 AM PDT
by
jpsb
(I already know I am a terrible speller)
To: Brian328i
Just got the book from the library and am now about halfway through it. It's very well written and despite the "individual reviews" on Amazon i don't find it at all "preachy." I guess one only finds something "preachy" if they disagree with it.
Crichton states at the front of the book that all of his footnotes are real. I found a lot of the factual information in the book fascinating - and so different in toto than the quotes chosen by the envirowhackos.
The storyline itself is great, too. Very engrossing and typical Crichton readability.
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posted on
04/10/2005 10:06:57 AM PDT
by
Spyder
(I'm in the WPPFF)
To: RightWhale
Good point. Crichton wrote 'Eaters of the Dead,' which was an attractive paperback because of the line art. The story itself, about what Vikings found frightening, was a little simplistic, but not bad for an early novel.And it was made into a movie (they took a lot of liberties) that's actually pretty good, "The 13th Warrior," although casting Antonio Banderas as an arab didn't work all that well, IMHO, although he was good in it.
Mark
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posted on
04/10/2005 10:16:28 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(I've got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL!!!)
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