December 30, 2004

New Michael Crichton Book Poo-Poos Global Warming Theories

In an “Author’s Message” on page 569 of his current techno-thriller, State of Fear, Michael Chricton states (no link):

• We are … in the midst of a natural warming trend that began about 1850, as we emerged from a four-hundred-year cold spell known as the “Little Ice Age.”
• Nobody knows how much of the present warming trend might be a natural phenomenon.
• Nobody knows how much of the present warming trend might be man-made.
• ...Before making expensive policy decisions on the basis of climate models, I think it is reasonable to require that those models predict future temperatures accurately for a period of ten years. Twenty would be better.

  H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, endorses Crichton’s analysis:

  ...Crichton exposes serious problems the climate models that predict warming. The models don’t accurately portray past or current temperature reality, so why should their predictions about the future warming be trusted, much less used to inform public policy?

  ...I must admit, sitting in Dallas in December watching snow fall in the midst of below freezing temperatures—not typical Texas weather, even during the winter—it would be hard to take global warming alarmism seriously even had I not, after years of seriously studying and working on the issue, concluded that the disaster scenarios spun by environmentalists from human-caused global warming are more fiction than fact.

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