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09:00am ET, 16-December-04
Crichton Attacks Global Warming
Michael Crichton, whose new SF-tinged novel State of Fear takes on the issue of global warming, told the Associated Press that it took him a while to come to the conclusion that the phenomenon may not be real.
"It was very difficult to get my head around the idea that this widely held belief may not be true, and I thought, 'If I'm going to do a book, how would I structure it so that someone could even hear it a little bit?'" Crichton told the AP.
State of Fear centers on a group of eco-terrorists who plot a series of natural disasters to prove that global warming is a threat to humanity. A ragtag band of scientists and lawyers uncovers the scheme. Along the way, Crichton attacks the assumptions behind global warming and even tacks on a five-page message stating his notion that the theory of global warming is speculative at best, as well as a 14-page bibliography of works supporting his views, the AP reported.
"I have a lot of trouble with things that don't seem true to me," Crichton said. "I'm very uncomfortable just accepting. There's something in me that wants to pound the table and say, 'That's not true.'"
Crichton's author's statement is new even for Crichton. In it, he argued that a political agenda, not scientific evidence, is the foundation for predictions that the planet's climate will warm by 4 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century. World powers, he said, use global warming to keep citizens in a state of fear, just as they did with the Cold War. But Crichton is noticeably vague about who these powers are, the AP reported. Crichton, who was trained as a physician, considers himself an environmentalist, no matter what. "Why are we not feeding people in this world who are hungry? Why are we not giving clean water to the almost billion people who don't have clean water? The greatest sources of environmental degradation is poverty. Why aren't we cleaning up poverty?" State of Fear is now on sale.
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