![]() Having read the book, it’s really hard to just ignore that. He has footnotes, charts and graphs littered through out the text. In the author’s note he claims he studied climatology for three years. ![]() ![]() It is worth noting his bibliography is 27 pages long. I’m not saying I agree or disagree here, but I do think his argument is one worth examining. The media has put the civilized world into a “State of Fear” based on random, targeted, singular research studies, conducted perhaps by scientists whose funds are granted via organizations who have a stake in global warming. In Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse, the world outside the walls of a Navajo reservation is drowned in rising tides.Ĭrichton, interestingly enough, argues not that there is no such thing, but that it doesn’t pose the dangers we think it does, and that even if it does, we have no idea how much of global warming is caused by human behavior and how much of it is caused by natural climate cycles. I read Kim Stanley Robinson’s, New York 2140 this year, which imagined a New York underwater. Usually climate fiction strives to warn people of the dangers of global warming. Peter Evans, lawyer for billionaire and environmental enthusiast George Morton, is unwittingly sucked into the race to expose the bad guys and foil their plans. ![]() I mean it’s all there in the plot summary: environmental extremists are running around the globe trying to cause or amplify “natural” disasters. ![]()
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