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Remembering Michael Crichton
Well, as a fantastically rich man, Michael Crichton had no need of 'petro dollars', so you kind of have to figure this was his honest assessment of the Global Warming 'crisis'.
Remembering Michael Crichton
I agree, Cartoonasaurus.
I'm a great fan of his work and was delighted to find he was challenging the notion of man made global warming. Here's the late Charlton Heston reading from the epilogue of Jurassic Park on this subject: Michael_Crichton_Jurassic_Park_Charlton_Heston.mp3 If anyone's interested, here's a global warming debate hosted by NPR with Michael Crichton as one of the participants (they won): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9082151 What creeps me out is that people are being convinced that we can actually steer climate change like a boat when we can't even reliably predict the weather. Basic chaos theory is all that's needed to understand the futility of accurately modeling our climate. Climate change "scientists" ignore the greatest green house gas, water vaper. Everything's much cleaner in the models if you leave out the clouds. Concensus is not science.
Remembering Michael Crichton
Basic chaos theory is all that's needed to understand the futility of accurately modeling our climate. Climate change "scientists" ignore the greatest green house gas, water vaper.Chaos theory--yeah, I know all about that too because I saw Jurassic Park! You're an idiot and you have no idea what you're talking about.
Remembering Michael Crichton
You're an idiot and you have no idea what you're talking about.How very interesting. You're a true vulgarian, aren't you? Funny how often this well-thought argument is heard from the true believers of the AGW church and its Goracle. Stay classy!
Remembering Michael Crichton
While I welcome debate on things posted here on hints, name calling is not something that's welcomed. So please, keep things civil.
Remembering Michael Crichton
please give the dead some respect
Remembering Michael Crichton
Climate change is not weather. Predicting the weather is like predicting when a particular schmuck is going to win the lottery. Climate study is like predicting how many schmucks will will the lottery.
Remembering Michael Crichton
Believing that just because the consensus can be wrong ipso facto means that climate change somehow isn't happening, or that human activity doesn't have something to do with it is completely illogical. Crichton had a lot of similar very clever arguments for a lot of things, including dinosaurs and climate change, but a lot of them were obviously wrong to someone who knew the technical details about what it was he was describing, but not so much the casual reader. E.g., at one point he declares in State of Fear that there is cooling in some weather stations, but that isn't what climate change is about, it's about the mean surface temperature, not isolated places. I won't get into it more than that, this debate is best left to other sites...
Remembering Michael Crichton
His credentials in the field of climatology were... ? |
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