...data or Global Warming as Religion and not Science It was Michael Crichton who first prominently identified environmentalism as a...to be inaccurate or even irrelevant. The global warmers like to use the name of... cathodes heated to avoid a prolonged warming up period, but transistors and LCDs do...by "ratchet reporting" . News of unusual warm weather, for example, is given copious ...

......not with your vague anxieties Global warming Phillips has said of ... that the current "warm spell is well within the normal cyclical ... to century",[22] that blaming "warming on mankind's activities in ..."utter garbage",[23] and that global warming alarmism is like a...facts.. If you read michael crichtons book on environmentalists, mainframe/wireframe...

......not with your vague anxieties Global warming Phillips has said of ... that the current "warm spell is well within the normal cyclical ... to century",[22] that blaming "warming on mankind's activities in ... "utter garbage",[23] and that global warming alarmism is like a "...the facts.. If you read michael crichtons book on environmentalists, mainframe/wireframe ...

... figures...not with your vague anxieties Global warming Phillips has said of global... that the current "warm spell is well within the normal cyclical ... to century",[22] that blaming "warming on mankind's activities in ... "utter garbage",[23] and that global warming alarmism is like a "... facts.. If you read michael crichtons book on environmentalists, mainframe/wireframe ...

...always worried by such scientific consensus.... Global warming Phillips has said of global... that the current "warm spell is well within the normal cyclical ... to century",[22] that blaming "warming on mankind's activities in ... "utter garbage",[23] and that global warming alarmism is like a "... you. If you read michael crichtons book on environmentalists, mainframe/wireframe or...

...technobabble is necessary." Yup; that's Crichton. You need to add "except for global warming". Has Crichton done global warming yet? In any case one wouldn't think it...cause harm. And the causes of global warming aren't that high tech..., he has. "The plot of Crichton's 14th novel is notable mainly...' disasters." Now, that's Crichton. Global warming isn't the fault ...

....co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: I bought it an airport book, but I never got around to reading it. Or rather not reading it beyond page 15. Everytime I got that far I fell asleep. I think it's somewhere in the shed now, which is what happens to all car kibble eventually. Ha! Well, I didn't find it that bad (I quite like Crichton books). At least you've got some emergency bog roll.

... realise that giving legitimacy to peoples' beliefs, no matter how lunatic they are, is very profitable (so that'll be the government and the media then). (on a related tangent) I've just finished reading 'Airframe' by Michael Crichton, it's pretty good and illustrates the subjectivity vs objectivity and burden of proof issues quite well. Worth a read if you're into that sort of thing.

djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in news:JpEqB4.Mqu@kithrup.com: I think the argument might better be summarized as "anything people do involving technology will inevitably lead to a disaster, using whatever handwaving and technobabble is necessary." Yup; that's Crichton. You need to add "except for global warming".

... Arrhenius calculated that emissions from human industry might someday bring a global warming. Other scientists dismissed his idea ... researchers in the 1950s discovered that global warming truly was possible. In the ... it is very likely that significant global warming is coming in our lifetimes..../index.php/archives/category/climate-scienc...Crichton's State of Confusionby Gavin Schmidt...