Articles Tagged "Michael Crichton"

In his 2004 bestseller, "State of Fear," the late Michael Crichton introduced a skeptical climate science character, Professor Hoffman, who said:

"I study the ecology of thought.... And how it has led to a State of Fear." The professor went on to explain that the government practices "social control [which is] best managed through fear."

After the U.N. packed up yet another global climate conference earlier this month, the perpetual state of fearful climate science came to mind. The fear this time is based on the current talking points from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that human-induced climate change is manifested in "extreme weather events."

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is already exploiting this alarming message in a creative way. The EPA is preparing guidelines on reducing indoor air pollutants because people are expected to spend more time indoors due to the increased amount of severe weather resulting from climate change.

Cartoon by Josh

If Michael Crichton had lived to write a follow-up to State of Fear, the plotline might well have gone like this: at a top secret, state of the art laboratory in Switzerland, scientists finally discover the true cause of “global warming”. It’s the sun, stupid. More specifically – as the Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark has long postulated – it’s the result of cosmic rays which act as a seed for cloud formation. The scientists working on the project are naturally euphoric: this is a major breakthrough which will not only overturn decades of misguided conjecture on so-called Man Made Global Warming but will spare the global economy trillions of dollars which might otherwise have been squandered on utterly pointless efforts to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions. However, these scientists have failed to realise just how many people – alarmist scientists, huckster politicians, rent-seeking landowners like (the late Michael Crichton’s brilliant and, of course, entirely fictional creation) the absurd, pompous Sir Reginald Leeds Bt, green activists, eco-fund managers, EU technocrats, MSM environmental correspondents – stand to gain from the Man Made “Climate Change” industry. Their discovery must be suppressed at all costs. So, one by one, the scientists on the cosmic ray project find themselves being bumped off, until only one man remains and must race against time to prove, etc, etc…

Except of course in the real world the second part wouldn’t happen. No one would need to go to the trouble of bumping off those pesky scientists with their awkward, annoying facts and their proper actual research. That’s because the MSM and the scientific “community” would find it perfectly easy to suppress the story anyway, without recourse to severed brake cables or ricin-impregnated hand-washes or staged “suicides”.

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Whenever you have bad science you inevitably have even more bad science that tries to support it, and we describe this sort of science as "if it does not fit then make it fit". When we looked at the city temperature readings as few years ago we found the way Michael Crichton put the case for the "Urban Heat Island" effect, in his book "State of Fear", was more then adequate to describe the stupidity of temperature readings in cities. In that, the night time readings of a city indicated that "Global Warming" only came out after dark! If you have not read this work then take time out to do so, it's not only a good read but Michael openly wrestles with this issue.

It is more then a surprise that the Met Office are justifying the "Urban Heat Island" idea as if they can now say that it is real, and that they have the so called science to support it. This article produced by the Telegraph, is anything but a new branch of science, and is in effect, showing the folly of city temperature readings, as per Michael Crichton.

Now the Met Office is predicting that such differences in temperatures, known as the 'urban heat island' effect, could be exacerbated by global warming. The principal cause of urban heat islands is that hard surfaces like buildings and roads reflect more light than vegetation, which is converted into heat.

Aliens Cause Global Warming
by Michael Crichton - Caltech Michelin Lecture - January 17, 2003

My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming. Charting this progression of belief will be my task today.

From Bloomberg News Michael Crichton, the best-selling author of science-infused thrillers including ``Jurassic Park'' and ``The Andromeda Strain,'' has died. He was 66. Crichton died yesterday in Los Angeles ``after a courageous and private battle against cancer,'' according to an announcement on his Web site. It said Crichton's works ``challenged our preconceived notions about the world around us.'' In addition to his books, Crichton created the hit television show ``ER.'' In recent years, the Harvard University and Harvard Medical School graduate was known as a high-profile doubter about the threat posed by global warming. His 2004 book ``State of Fear'' conjured a group of eco-terrorists trying to sow panic over the topic. ``In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment,'' he said in a 2005 speech at the National Press Club in Washington. ``We are basing our decisions on speculation, not evidence.

Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA, September 15, 2003
Michael Crichton: Environmentalism As Religion

This was not the first discussion of environmentalism as a religion, but it caught on and was widely quoted. Michael explains why religious approaches to the environment are inappropriate and cause damage to the natural world they intend to protect.

I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.