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Michael Crichton Dead At 66
Many readers have submitted stories about the death of Michael Crichton. The 66-year-old author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain died unexpectedly Tuesday "after a courageous and private battle against cancer," a press release said. In addition to writing, he also directed such sci-fi classics as Westworld and Runaway. Crichton was married five times and had one child.
I'm sure whomever modded the grandparent "troll," knew to what the post was referring. In case you hadn't noticed, there's not a small population of vocal anthropogenic global warming skeptics and denialists here at Slashdot.
I'll go even further than 1u3hr... Michael Crichton was a hack, shaky at best on his science and absolutely unable to write a story with a decent resolution and ending. (They tended to end, abruptly, with a deus ex machina.) So far as literature goes, "andnothingofvaluewaslost" is pretty much the harsh truth. The only reason he'll even rate a footnote is because other people took his books and managed with great effort to make popular movies that didn't entirely suck.
And calling it "skepticism" is to equate skepticism with ideologically-driven dogma and conspiracy theories.
Skepticism is rational, "global warming skepticism" is anything but.
To me, I am still bewildered by why this is news that matters... unless we should all be happy the fuck is dead.
Long live NON BORING BOOKS!
No matter what the troll says above me, I care not. I read one line and decided to respond lower.
I feel that a big misconception people have is that climate change advocates are trying to stifle discussion, while "skeptics" (idiots) are trying to open them. Of all the papers, documentaries, lectures, etc I have come across, the ones lacking seem to be the "skeptics".
To be honest, most of the arguments end up as "My car has never needed to be filled with petrol (gas in the US)" while your "servants" do it for you. By all reasoning you are "right", but the fact remains, you still need to have the car full of petrol to use it.
translation: you haven't and won't read them....
If information wants to be free, why does my internet connection cost so much?
Why should I waste more time on you? It's easy enough for you to google for them yourself...or, since we're talking about Michael Crichton, try looking up any of the hundreds of references he provided in State of Fear. Since acceptance of anthropogenic global warming has pretty much turned into a religion among your ilk, though, I suspect there's nothing that will convince you of the truth anyway.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.