Michael Crichton in London to promote Anti-Environmentalist novel

Sancho | 10.12.2004 15:39 | Ecology | London | World

Jurassic Park-author and climate change-denier Michael Crichton is in London signing copies of his new novel State of Fear, about Eco-Terroists who use machines to fake environmental disasters

Not content with writing sexist garbage like "Disclosure", and setting back Japanese-American relations 50 years with "Rising Sun", Michael Crichton is now demonising environmentalists with his new novel.

Crichton already nailed his right-wing colours to the mast over the matter of climate change with a 2000 lecture entitled, "Aliens Cause Global Warming". His scientifically-dubious argument was that climate change was an ideologically-motivated theory, like the existence of aliens (because, of course, Mr. Crichton is entirely untainted by ideology). Ergo there's no way to predict the next 100 years, so why do anything. QED, or something...

His new novel goes further, with a plot about eco-terrorists creating climate chaos in order to stop honest good-ol'-boy Americans driving their freedom-lovin' SUVs. Review here:

http://www.slate.com/id/2110815/

He's in London signing the novel tomorrow. Don't know if anyone's planning anything but it'd be cool if he could receive a warm London welcome.

Details below:

"Michael Crichton - State of Fear

W1, Waterstone's Piccadilly. Free

203-206 Piccadilly
Underground: Green Park and Piccadilly Circus
Saturday, 11-Dec-04, 11am

Michael Crichton - State of Fear

In this exclusive UK signing, the internationally renowned author of 'Jurassic Park' will be signing copies of his gripping new techno-thriller, 'State of Fear'.

Signing - no ticket required

For further information please contact the following number or e-mail:

enquiries@piccadilly.www.waterstones.co.uk.

Phone: 020-7851-2400
Dates
Saturday 11 December

Be sure to check details with the organizers before you go."

Sancho

Comments

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Winning

11.12.2004 17:06

People will always attack you when you are winning. There are fools like this out there but many more are waking up.

Vegan Ritchie

I want some facts, please!

12.12.2004 01:41

I cannot find any adequate criticism of this book - the only decent
review is by the WSJ, which supports the book, unsurprisingly. Almost
all the text on the environmental side (the side I am inclined towards)
is of the name calling variety, that says almost nothing to actually
attack the book's arguments. I have no interest in attacks on Crichton -
I think he writes decent thrillers, they are thrillers, not literature,
not science. I am very interested in trying to understand as best I
can the nature of the actual argument and the data at the heart of
the book.

bine

jurassic park

12.12.2004 17:33

So wait... you mean you *can't* bring back dinosaurs by cloning them from mosquitos?

Enoch Hitler
mail e-mail: Jimmy@fcukfayce.com

Be fair...

23.12.2004 15:24

To be fair, if you read Crichton's essay ("Aliens...") then you cannot help but agree with a lot of what he says. Of course, it requires detailed analysis (which I have not done) to evaluate his points and check for accuracy, but the general impression is one you must agree with. Viz, science must be proved or disproved by science itself. You will notice that his essay does not say that climate change does not exist, just that the basis for believing in it is quite shaky from a scientific point of view. The whole tone of the piece makes me believe that if you showed him conclusive scientific proof, open to scrutiny and testable, then he would be happy with that.

General abuse of him gets us nowehere, just as he argues in his essay that general abuse rather than rational debate and scientific proof is the way forward.

Ted

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