Greenhouse Gas [Crichton is deceiving you! You're all doooooooomed for not believing. Oh, BARF!]

Does this mean that the premises of all fiction books will now be questioned? That would be interesting.

I noticed this.... "Crichton also strains to discredit global-warming fears by presenting them as faddish. He has one environmentalist say (incorrectly), “in the 1970s, all the climate scientists believed an ice age was coming.” Global warming did level off between 1940 and 1975. We now know that this was largely a result of dust and aerosols sent by humans into the atmosphere that temporarily overwhelmed the warming effect from greenhouse gases. In the 1970s, it was not yet clear whether the cooling effect from aerosols would be greater than the heating produced from greenhouse gases. Now we know: the heating wins. This episode, fairly explained, would give readers greater confidence in our understanding of climate science, not less. "

Wow... talk about straining credulity. Aerosols apparently voted for global cooling before they voted for global heating.

Who would you believe, Michael Crichton or Ted Danson?

Michael Crichton... Frankly, I'd rather see him on TV than Ted Danson too!

Mark

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