If you've wondered about Crichton - he's got a book to sell (SURPRISE!!)

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He is most famous for his far-fetched tale of how dinosaurs could be brought to life with DNA from mosquitoes trapped in amber. Now the bestselling author Michael Crichton has written a thriller about ecoterrorism which the critics say is equally fantastic in its refusal to accept that global warming is a clear and present danger.

With 2m copies of State of Fear hitting bookshops across the world, Crichton's thesis that the "interminable yammering of fearmongers" about climate change is being used to keep ordinary people perpetually anxious will reach a huge audience.

As diplomats and scientists gathered at the tenth international convention on climate change in Buenos Aires yesterday to discuss where to go from Kyoto, the 62-year-old author of Jurassic Park and Rising Sun arrived in Britain to promote his 600-page "techno thriller".

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Scientists and environmentalists greeted his arguments with derision yesterday. Even his hero Mr Lomberg disputed his calculations. Tony Jupiter, director of Friends of the Earth, said: "It's interesting to see how climate change sceptics have truly entered the world of fiction. "They've been in that world for some time, but they've been positioned as factually based. The fact that these arguments are presented as a novel puts them in their correct place in society. "Go to the basic model prepared by the Hadley Centre. a very clear relation between rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere and rising temperatures. These temperature increases could be very considerable in a very short period of time."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1371591,00.html

Well, well, well. I guess that explains the Parade Magazine article, now doesn't it?

[iamjoy]

1. Don't Forget About Time Travel...

Although I enjoyed Timeline, Jurassic Park, etc - I accept them as works of FICTION.

But in his author's note, Crichton says "everybody has an agenda, except me" - that is pure bullshit. A pretentious mock-humble statement! His agenda is to sell books. The corporations want to produce their goods as cheaply as possible to sell to as many people as possible all while raking in the largest profits possible.

A case could be made that environmentalists are using fear to control the populace because they want power and all those "unshaven, unbathed radicals" are "drinking the kool-aid" much like the Fundamentalist Christians drink the kook-aid of the corporate Republican elite into betraying the true roots of populism.