re: #145 kf

Bjorn is a great orator, watched one of his speeches a few months ago. Michael Crichton also gave VERY good speeches about global warming. Towards the end of his life, he toured the country giving lectures urging scientists to get back to the science of global warming and stop turning it political.

I like to think that this will be one of Crichton’s more noteworthy legacies as we look back on his life 15-20 years in the future.

(And when I bring him up on less….friendly….venues regarding global warming, I usually get a response of “who cares what a sci-fi writer has to say!” He has an MD from Harvard).

If you get a chance read Crichton’s book that weave’s a great story around the AGW hysteria, State of Fear. He footnotes all his research and the Hollywood idiot character that is an amalgam of Martin Sheen and Ed Begley Jr. comes to a rather satisfying, if gruesome end.