Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Everyone has heard of Jurassic Park. What is less well known is author Michael Crichton, who passed in 2008, was also a staunch critic of politicised science, and an articulate and effective global warming skeptic, who was just getting into his stride when he was sadly struck down at age 66 by cancer.
TWENTY YEARS ON, ALIENS STILL CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING
Over the years, the Jurassic Park creator observed, science has drifted from its foundation as an objective search for truth toward political power games
JONATHAN BARTLETT JUNE 7, 2020
In 2003, author and filmmaker Michael Crichton (1942–2008), best known for Jurassic Park, made a now-famous speech at Caltech, titled “Aliens Cause Global Warming.” The title was humorous but the content was serious. He was not addressing some strange theory of global warming; he was warning about the politicization of science.
In 2003, author and filmmaker Michael Crichton (1942–2008), best known for Jurassic Park, made a now-famous speech at Caltech, titled “Aliens Cause Global Warming.” The title was humorous but the content was serious. He was not addressing some strange theory of global warming; he was warning about the politicization of science.
Crichton (left, in 2002, courtesy Jon Chase, Harvard CC 3.0), noted that, over the years, science has drifted away from its foundation as an objective search for truth and given itself over to political power games. The first time that he witnessed that was with the famous Drake Equation, used to turn SETI speculations about space aliens into a science. The Drake equation was a series of probabilities multiplied together to estimate the probability that space aliens may exist who can communicate with us. Of course, none of the terms is known or even estimable, and they may not be expressible as probabilities. However, SETI was given a pass because it suited the scientific zeitgeist of the day. It probably helped capture public attention for science.
The same thing happened during discussions of the effects of nuclear war. Paper after paper made nonsense claims about such a war’s effects, including nuclear winter. But no one wanted to intervene, fearing that skepticism might be portrayed as a defense of nuclear war. Thus, bad science, even from top-tier journals, was reported as fact by the scientific community.
Crichton noted that some of these papers were actually part of an orchestrated media campaign:
The first announcement of nuclear winter appeared in an article by Sagan in the Sunday supplement, Parade. The very next day, a highly-publicized, high-profile conference on the long-term consequences of nuclear war was held in Washington, chaired by Carl Sagan and Paul Ehrlich, the most famous and media-savvy scientists of their generation. Sagan appeared on the Johnny Carson show 40 times. Ehrlich was on 25 times. Following the conference, there were press conferences, meetings with congressmen, and so on. The formal papers in Science came months later.
MICHAEL CRICHTON, “ALIENS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING” AT CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PASADENA, CA (JANUARY 17, 2003)
He summed it all up by saying, “This is not the way science is done, it is the way products are sold.” Painful, but true.
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Read more: https://mindmatters.ai/2020/06/twenty-years-on-aliens-still-cause-global-warming/
The transcript of Crichton’s “Aliens Cause Global Warming” speech is available here. The Aliens speech is Crichton’s description of the chain of Noble Cause Corruption which led to the ongoing silence of the academic establishment in the face of scientifically indefensible climate alarmism.
A video of Michael Crichton in action;
Crichton was popular on university campuses, because of his talent as a speaker, his scientific credibility as a qualified scientist, the immense popularity of his works of fiction, including Jurassic Park, Westworld, The Andromeda Strain, and the blockbuster medical TV series ER, and his unyielding support for reason and the scientific method.
Crichton had always planned on becoming a writer and began his studies at Harvard College in 1960.[6] During his undergraduate study in literature, he conducted an experiment to expose a professor who he believed was giving him abnormally low marks and criticizing his literary style.[9]:4 Informing another professor of his suspicions,[10] Crichton submitted an essay by George Orwell under his own name. The paper was returned by his unwitting professor with a mark of “B−”.[11] He later said, “Now Orwell was a wonderful writer, and if a B-minus was all he could get, I thought I’d better drop English as my major.”[8] His differences with the English department led Crichton to switch his undergraduate concentration. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in biological anthropology summa cum laude in 1964[12] and was initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.[12] He received a Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship from 1964 to 1965 and was a visiting lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom in 1965.[12] Crichton later enrolled at Harvard Medical School.[9][page needed] By this time, he had become exceptionally tall, by his own account, approximately 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m) tall as of 1997.[13][14] Crichton later said “about two weeks into medical school I realized I hated it. This isn’t unusual since everyone hates medical school – even happy, practicing physicians.”[15]
Source: Wikipedia
If Crichton had lived, there is no doubt he would have continued to be a powerful voice for reason, and a fearless critic of climate alarmism and government policy based on scientifically unfounded claims.
Your last summary paragraph is absolutely correct! Thanks for this essay!!!
Would he have remained as popular on US campuses, or would he have been deplatformed?
Assuming he continued writing, as well as having his writings turned into successful (read popular) movies and other media, he would have remained popular. The problem would have been whether he could have continued to get his writings into other media, as the political side of Hollywood would have likely turned against him.
JK Rowling thought she was down with the cause, and yet she finds herself lined up against the wall with all the other “fascists.” In the end, enemies and allies alike get the bullet (or the ice pick).
Throwing her Dumbledore character under the homosexual bus didn’t buy JK Rowling protection from the mob for very long, did it?
Not a mention of “State of Fear”; As I sit sipping my morning coffee watching the snow fall covering my recently planted tomato plants, June 8th.
‘State of Fear’ should be required reading for all interested in how that ‘Fear’ can be generated. A great book by a much missed author.
+42×1042
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Yes, State of Fear was a surprising book for me.. and started me on my quest and led me here, to WUWT a haven from the sea of misinformation out there. WUWT gives me great hope!
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I have his book “State of Fear” and have read it several times. It was a view of the future, like right now, where cultures are becoming so dysfunctional that they are proposing to disband police departments. What a great visionary Michael Crichton was, and he should be celebrated as such.
Marcus
In my opinion the State of Fear book
was too long, and not that interesting.
It was surprising to have the portions on climate science.
Yes, but it did point out the global warming..I mean climate change scam.
I only needed Al Gore’s endorsement to figure that climate change was a scam. Up to that point I had been a mild but not particularly concerned warmist – but Big Al set me on the right (but not righteous) path
it is and I hunted down a personal copy;-) as well as a few others of his
yes it should be required reading especially following inconvenient mess indoctrinations by schools.
That’s a great read !!
It was “State of Fear” that first made me aware of the global warming scam.
5″ of global warming at my Daughter’s house this morning. Al Gore must have flown over?!
This is getting serious.
my ares has been almost every month both high n low averages below the avg
presently;
June Minimum Temperature
Lowest this month -0.9°C 8th
Lowest on record -2.6°C 15th 2006
Average this month 2.8°C -2.3°C
Long-term average 5.1°C
June Maximum Temperature
Highest this month 14.5°C 2nd
Highest on record 23.5°C 8th 2005
Average this month 12.3°C -1.7°C
Long-term average 14.0°C
not a peep about it
butlet it be a half a degree above?
medias all over it.
State of fear, especially the early edition with all the references he gave, was a memorable book. I think out current society is a good indicator of the truthfulness of his outlook. Society is kept in a perpetual state of fear by the media and politicians. What should be enjoyed as a golden age is overshadowed by their manipulations.
Re “State of Fear”:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/fear_the_best_tool_of_the_ruling_class.html
Re “State of Fear”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/fear_the_best_tool_of_the_ruling_class.html
Like your comment, there is a duplicate paragraph in the snip from the linked article. It starts “In 2003, …”
Thank you, Eric, for this essay on Michael Crichton’s understandings of climate research*. Sadly, Michael’s not around to inform others anymore.
Stay safe and healthy, all.
Bob
*I do my best to not use the phrase “climate science” because the scientific aspect of climate research ended when the UN founded the IPCC with its intended purpose to support political agendas. They proved that in 1995 when the bureaucrats changed the language of the IPCC’s second assessment report.
I prefer “climate conjecture” which spawns “climate constructs”)
All driven by “climate agenda”
Thanks Bob 🙂
“This is not the way science is done, it is the way products are sold.”
The latest addition to my file of quotes, factoids and smart remarks.
And Yes, “State of fear” was an excellent read.
Over at the You Tube the 2nd comment up is:
“interviewers invite great men into their shows and then never let them finish a complete sentence. very professional. “
Somewhere I have a wonderful statistics textbook first written in the 1920s and with subsequent editions up to (I think) the 1960s when my copy was printed.
Remember that the book was written before the satellite era. It gives an example that goes something like this:
So, that’s basically why the Drake Equation is bogus. link
The IPCC says more than 50% of the modern warming is due to humans.
50% of zero ?
Yes, the IPCC says that, but they can’t prove it. They can’t even nail down how much warmth CO2 adds to the atmosphere (if any, after feedbacks). After 40 years of trying.
The IPCC has nothing to offer but unsubstantiated assertions.
“The IPCC says more than 50% of the modern warming is due to humans.”
Sounds about right. The other 50% is due to aliens.
Aliens Ate My Buick.
The Drake Equation is a misnomer. It should be referred to as the Drake Cocktail Napkin Doodle.
Be afraid, be very afraid, of politicised science, orchestrated media campaigns and censorship. Demand reason, the scientific method and open forums.
I’ll add a re-read of “State of Fear” to my summer reading list. I have a hardcover copy prominently displayed on my bookcase at home. 🙂
FYI
The first block quote has some de ja vous in it.
Déjà vu.
John Tillman,
Did you mean Deja vu all over again?
Por supuesto!
He summed it all up by saying, “This is not the way science is done, it is the way products are sold.”
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please show me the “products” being sold by global warming with the relevant proof
Green New Deal
The product is Global WAWA Alarmism.
the product is government control
Biggest Thing being sold…CARBON CREDITS
also:
Wind Farms, Solar Panels, EVs, CO2 filters on manufacturing processes, etc etc etc
Wind and solar farms that wreck the economic distribution of electricity, burning wood chips in England that are harvested in the US! The list is long and depressing but the truth about the anti-Environmental Movement is lurking just below the surface waiting to slap the inquisitive mind up side the head!
Forgot to list electric cars, bans on plastic straws and bags, and the religion of Climastrology!
Add forest/bush fires totally out of control due to lack of burning/clearing to reduce floor fuels loads (‘cos that would be removing a “carbon sink”)
to ensure more fires in areas that were saved?
Australia is planning to shoot 5,000brumbies
of course no one really knows there are 5k at all
but they claim there are
and its led by greens envirowhackjobs and supported by Andrews in Vic.
if they did the degree of damage claimed thered BE NO native anything or waterways left
oddly theres many “rare” native species right where the horses graze…hmm?
amazing!
still surviving just fine after 200yrs of wild horses goats rabbits pigs and deer
as well as thenow banned cattle over winter. etc
7 Red States with Red Governors RAVE about the investment in Renewables
…for the diverse distribution of these centers of renewable energy
…less likely to be the target of terror or catastrophic weather damage
…and they rave about stable or falling electric rates,
falling need for subsidies,
Rising Employment with
high pay scales
….which also means increasing tax base.
As Opposed
to
The Areas where Free Enterprise is restricted by the Fossil Fuel Monopoly…where rising subsidies and rising electric rates are the rule of thumb.
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“…wind turbines and solar now produce electricity far more cheaply than natural gas &/or coal…”
“…That has made them attractive to electric utilities and investors alike…”
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“…The solar and wind industries alone are each creating permanent WELL PAYING jobs at a rate 12 times faster than that of the rest of the U.S. economy, according to a new report.
The study, published by the (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that high paying solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20% annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011….”
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As evidence of how renewables are cheaper, take for example,
Northern Indiana Public Service Co. Indiana is the nation’s third-largest consumer of coal,
after Texas and Illinois, and NIPSCO got nearly all of its electricity from coal-fired plants as recently as 2010.
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It’s now planning to shut down two of its three coal plants by 2028 and replace them with renewables.
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“Cost-competitiveness that has been evolving in the market,
pointing toward the need to accelerate retirement of our coal-fired electric generation
and replace it with lower-cost renewable sources,” it said.
Similarly,
American Electric Power Co., one of the nation’s largest consumers of coal,
told regulators it wants to build 900 MW of wind and solar generation.
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“These decisions are being driven by economics,
where the utility is saying renewable energy is the least-cost and less-risk option to customers,”
said Ben Inskeep, an analyst at EQ Research told E&E News.
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And it’s not just utilities that are getting into the game.
Corporate purchases of renewable energy have grown around the world,
reaching 7.2 gigawatts in 2018 according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/14/renewables-are-the-cleanest-the-cheapest/
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over view:
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/24/yay-coal-in-my-stocking-critiques-of-climate-action-amidst-moves-to-renewable-energy/
Deal or no deal? Green I mean. Even the terminology used confirms Crichton’s observation.
The medium is the message
the “products” being sold by global warming
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Carbon tax, energy subsidies, solar panels, windmills.
The biggest con job is to sell electricity as an energy source, with the idea that it can replace fossil fuels. Electricity is simply a pipeline that carries energy from one place to the next.
Electric vehicles do not run on electricity. They run on a chemical reaction in the batteries. The correct name is battery powered vehicles.
But of course, battery powered vehicles would not sell, because the consumer knows from experience batteries are unreliable. Who hasn’t gone to start the car to find the battery is flat at the worst possible time?
Been sayin’ it for years. Batterries store chemicals just like my petrol tank. Batteries store the ‘oxygen’ (oxidiser?) for the combustion in them and thats why they will never achieve the energy density of hydrocarbons. Gas oil has the highest energy density of any chemical and uses air for combustion so it does not have to be carried in the vehicle.
Electricity transmission is the replacement for the rotating shaft. I was ‘learned’ on rotating shafts from a paper making machines with speed control for each drying drum controlled by belt driven tapered drum on a single rotating shaft along the length of the machine. They are often seen in old films driving sewing machines.
In Truro (UK) with a few minutes to wait alongside a small display of Self-Charging hybrid cars in the square, I asked the salesman “what is the point of running an engine to charge a battery”. He replied ” oh no the engine doesn’t charge the battery, that’s done by the wheels turning round”. I wanted to laugh but realised that his training video probably only covered regenerative braking and his school science was lacking.
Hybrid diesel/electric motors are pretty efficient though. For example if you want to show your Green credentials go on one of the latest mega cruise ships. It will probably be powered by an electric motor (which of course might be powered by 4 20MW Wartsila Diesel generators..)
Not totally sure how far your cruise boat would go if you plugged it in at port before setting off without any fuel aboard?
Trillions of dollars taken from taxpayers and reallocated to non-producers who vote correctly.
My, we are a bit out of touch aren’t we?
Ghalfrunt,
That’s the first smart question you’ve ever asked, although I don’t think you meant to. What they are “selling” is an *idea*. The idea is that there is this extensional crisis that only they know how to solve. We just need to bow to their will due to their superior knowledge and morals. Otherwise we are all doomed. It is a naked power grab pure and simple. The only thing that makes it different from other attempts in the past is the global scale of their aspirations, which is really quite audacious if you think about it.
Given the tenor of your comments (I’m charitable here) and the moniker you opted for, is it possible that ideas, any idea, only makes it halfway around your brain?
Or are you being deliberately blockheaded?
Windmills and solar panels scams.
Btw, you are dishonest and should be ashamed of yourself for telling people to drink bleach.
Ghafrunt -What is being sold:
Global governance, the collective imperative, Beef is bad for you and the planet, Vitamin C is bad to take for help with covid, buy windmills and solar panels, take public transport not a fossil fuelled car, don’t fly, trust us we’re here to help, greening of the planet is bad news …. And this is all fact checked by the WHO-Whu Commissariat
Renewables, carbon credits and don’t forget the current trend in California to fully electrify all new homes without a moment of thought as to where all the additional power will come from.
California currently imports over 30% of the electricity that it consumes.
feed-in tariffs and renewables subsidies.
Careers and free travel for otherwise incompetent academics.
“State of Fear” was an important help in changing my views on climate; I read it after watching Gore’s film, which first activated my BS antenna. A novel with scientific references!
Albert “Bachelor of the Arts in Government” Gore said of the man and the book that it was “just a novel” IIRC, snorting and scoffing in his elitist-scum way.
Dr. Crichton graduated cum laude from Harvard Medical School and went to work at the Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Sciences while Gore was, by his own admission, pi$$ing away his Harvard years smoking weed and playing pool.
One got the Nobel and an Oscar, and the other is a personal hero of mine. Guess which!
Don’t forget, Al Gore also invented the Internet.
Al Gore got a D in Introduction to Geology at Harvard…so much for his science credentials.
The left’s march of intolerance continues.
https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/candace-owens-gofundme-george-floyd-1234627289/
Ms. Owen’s GoFundMe account was shut down after she supported an Alabama store owner who referred to George Floyd as a thug and called the rioters idiots.
According to GoFundMe, she was shut down for her promotion of hatred and intolerance.
The logic is inescapable. George Floyd only spent time in prison because the police caught him and arrested him. Floyd would never have gone to prison otherwise and thus he would not have had a criminal record..
Therefore if you get rid of the police there will be no more criminals. People looting the stores are no longer criminals, they are liberators. Freeing the products from the grasp of greedy capitalists.
While this sounds insane, it’s exactly what these people believe. Saw it myself on posters and graffiti in Vancouver as far back as 1990. There’s nothing recent about this worldview at all – it’s just that the puppet masters hadn’t seen the utility of co-opting those useful idiots yet. Now they’ve gained so much power they aren’t the least bit backward about admitting their ambition:
https://ibb.co/xqLw9NH
When Khomeini came to power in Iran, among the first things he did was murder all the activists who rioted and demonstrated to bring him in.
Tyrants do not tolerate political activists or ideological purists. Those people rioting today are doomed to bullets and ditches if their leaders ever come to power.
He’s the anti-Jamey Comey.
“In 2003, author and filmmaker Michael Crichton (1942–2008), best known for Jurassic Park, made a now-famous speech at Caltech, titled: Aliens Cause Global Warming”
Climate science methodology supports the Crichton hypothesis
https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/12/03/tcruparody/
Michael Crichton was a brilliant and fascinating person, whose non-fiction books (Travels, etc.) were just as interesting as his fiction. Crichton’s success made him a significant presence in Hollywood and his knowledge of their bias and the details of how they operated no doubt were fertile ground for many storylines in his famous books and even more famous movies (unlike many authors, Crichton played a significant role in the movies made from his books).
But he was not politically correct. He understood the abuse of the scientific method and how that abuse was fodder for political ambitions of those with power or those with their eyes on power. That is why, almost 12 years after his death, nobody, and especially the well-connected biographers of the rich and famous, has chosen to research his life and write a biography about this great man. There is a yawning gap in the study of Crichton — his life and ideas — and it is clearly because he was not politically correct. While lesser writers, especially leftist literary types, get endless volumes written about them.
Cancel culture in action.
State of Fear is the delightful novel he wrote about the global warming scandal. Delightful because there is a certain self-serving political figure who gets his just desserts, and whose character really resembles a certain global warming pushing blowhard who is still with us, unlike, sadly, Michael Crichton.
I enjoyed “State of Fear” too. However, I have to say, I *also* read Crichton’s nonfiction autobiographical book “Travels” as well. As entertaining as “Travels” is, it is almost enough to give one pause, in a way?
See, a good part of “Travels” concerns Michael Crichton’s adventures in consulting psychics, going on New Age retreats in the desert, etc. While the author maintains a salutatory skepticism through much of this, even making a bit of fun of his perceptions at times, there are at least a couple of spots where he is altogether too credulous. In the ‘retreat in the desert’ episode, for instance, he clearly responds to a certain kind of social ‘party atmosphere’ by coming away a believer in psychic auras! A similar ‘party atmosphere’ or shared social experience, later on leads him to conclude that we all have serious ‘spoon bending’ TK abilities, including the ability to warp solid aluminum bars, etc. In essence, we could all give the comic book character, ‘Magneto’ a run for his money (apparently) if only we would take the time to learn how!
I don’t know what to conclude from this clear uncritical bias from someone like Crichton, who could be such an incisive and perceptive skeptic of *other* people’s biases and assumptions. Maybe it’s just that everyone needs a religion, and New Age was his?
David
Maybe he was circumspect enough to ask and experiment on his own beliefs. I sometimes try to cut 303 stainless with my finger but end up using my laser cutter as it seems to work much better.
I recommend Annie Jacobsen’s “Phenomena”. It’s a review of the US government studies into ESP, remote viewing and phychokensis. Lots of spoon bending.
Excellent comment, David. Crichton had lots of faults, and his brilliance seems to have slipped significantly regarding what we now know as New Age-related silliness. His connection to New Age, especially, was a low point that perhaps even he grew away from. I have no idea about his opinions of Judeo-Christian moral values, but I suspect he tended to dismiss their importance, although, again, maybe in the long run he was coming around. What you say about everyone needing a religion is absolutely correct. I wish Crichton had informed his beliefs more with the values of our Western culture. Being really smart, he was always searching and experimenting. Someone of his caliber often does this, and then comes around in the long run to the importance of traditions and Western values. His life was cut short, so it is hard to speculate. Everything you say is true, though, and I wish we all knew more about him because I doubt he’d be comfortable, as he got older, with some of his life as depicted in Travels.
Everybody believes in something that cannot be proven.
Maybe it is correct, but yet to be proved, that everyone needs a religion. We smply do not know, nor have we devised a way to prove or disprove.
Meanwhile, a great deal of money is put into continuing to advertise and promote religion, without much examination of whether the funds could be better spent. We have homeless people on the streets at the same time as mostly empty church buildings.
People in many countries are free to do as they wish with religion, which is how it should be.
The important principle is to NEVER allow religion to interfere with science. These are two separate and incompatible social thought processes that have nothing in common. Science is built on observation and measurement. Religion survives by avoiding these. Geoff S
Amen.
And, here is a tenet worth noting:
Science never threatens a truth-based r-e-l-i-g-i-o-n.**
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**This holds true for the two r-e-l-i-g-i-o-n-s I know well, Judaism and Christianity.
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Note (just an aside for anyone interested):
Crichton, apparently, sadly, was befuddled for awhile (hopefully, not for all time) by a New-Ageism/mantra-based/dem0n1c-forces- (sometimes called “the universe” or “the force” or “energies,” etc.) -type belief system.
If he observed any phenomena, given his intelligence and keen observation abilities, they were likely produced by dem0n1c forces.
There are only 3 known (“aliens” are only conjectured) possibilities for how “phenomena” can happen:
1. God/angels
2. $@t@n/dem0n$
3. Human
The “psychic phenomena” mentioned by Duncan above are, if bona fide (and not human magic tricks (such as the red scarves Kip Hansen mentioned in his article awhile back) dem0n1c.
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The reason for all the weird spelling is to get past the WordPress censor/filter.
With “climate science” we have a situation where it has itself become a religion.
What you call “science” was invented by Christian churchmen.*
* specifically, Catholic priests and deacons
Yes, M.E., this is true.
There were, however, also many, quite possibly, even MORE, Jewish scientists whose contributions were far more than trivial… .
I suspect even the excellent Michael Crichton would have been de-platformed from campuses by now.
Fifteen or so years ago I went to a second hand book sale in Ithaca, NY – the home of Cornell University and an enclave of west-coast ideals in otherwise red-neck country. There must have been 30-40 copies of State of Fear all stacked up that people had bought and then dumped because it didn’t conform to their idea of global warming being a man-made disaster.
I had been somewhat critical of Jurassic Park as an anti-science “whatever humans mess with will go wrong” message. I am not sure if that was Crichton’s intent at that time, but if so, he certainly changed his tune in later works. Sorely missed.
RE: “whatever humans mess with will go wrong” message
Ya think the WuFlu could possibly be an example?
Dan Kurt
p.s. George Floyd’s autopsy blood analysis shows: Fentanyl 11 ng/mL (4x lethal level), Norfentanyl 5.6 ng/mL, 4-ANPP 0.65 ng/mL (Despropionyl fentanyl), Methamphetamine 19 ng/mL (Speed), 11-Hydroxy Delta-9 THC 1.2 ng/ml (Mary Jane), Cotinine positive (predominant metabolite of nicotine), and Caffeine positive. Looks like George Floyd, unlike jeffery Epstein, killed himself. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/just_like_that_gun_control_support_and_covid19_died_this_week.html
Geroge didn’t die until a man put his knee on his neck for over eight minutes. I would say *that* was his cause of death. The coroner did not attribute George Floyd’s death to a drug overdose.
What’s the point of your statement? To exxonerate the policeman who killed him of guilt?
I think about 95 percent of the people who saw that incident would agree the cause of death was a knee to the neck by someone who was trying to do harm to a helpless George Floyd.
It’s no wonder there are thousands of people marching in protest to this. It was horrific.
Please google Excited Delirium Syndrome. The policeman did exactly what police manual recommends when dealing with someone exhibiting signs of EDS. I am concerned that he was over-charged and will be acquitted (assuming he gets a fair trial), which will lead to more violence.
RE: George Floyd’s death @ur momisugly Tom Abbott
Why a rush to judgement? I suggest that you take a deep breath and permit the Courts to sift the evidence. Watch some YouTube videos of magic tricks to see that one can be fooled easily by the camera and misdirection. What is obvious in a film may not be true.
Watch The Arrest and Death of George Floyd: An Ex-Cop’s View https://youtu.be/8bJOEFlFDo8.
Look at the background of George Floyd: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8366533/George-Floyd-moved-Minneapolis-start-new-life-released-prison-Texas.html
Read about the Israeli knee-on-neck restraint being taught to Minnesota cops: https://israelpalestinenews.org/minn-cops-trained-by-israeli-police-who-often-use-knee-on-neck-restraint/
Dan Kurt
Read George Floyd’s autopsy report, Tom.
No sign of injury to the neck. No sign of larynx compression. No petechiae. No sign of suffocation. He did suffer from severe hypertension and atherosclerosis.
He also had large amounts of fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system. Fentanyl overdose can cause fatal respiratory depression.
“Blood concentrations of approximately 7 ng/ml or greater have been associated with fatalities where poly-substance use was involved. Noted here
George Floyd had 11 ng/ml fentanyl in his blood. Plus meth, plus THC.
We can all sincerely regret George Floyd’s death. But asphyxiation as cause of death is far from established.
I’ve always used a paraphrase of his quote from the “Aliens” speech of “An equation that can mean anything means nothing.”
Speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival a couple of years back, Prof Chris Rapley of UCL was really angry that Crichton’s “State of Fear” had sold millions of copies, thus promulgating something that he, Rapley, did not believe. Speaking as a former director of the British Antarctic Survey, and a prominent climate scientist, he felt his message was not getting across properly. So in 2015 he wrote, with Duncan Macmillan, a book called “2071 – The World We’ll Leave our Grandchildren”. I have it here and have read it. I found it less convincing than Crichton, and it did not sell millions of copies. Nevertheless, the Guardian said “2071 is better than good; it is necessary”. So several years later, the argument rumbles on…
I’ve only read a handful of Crichton books, but I do remember how his position on Climate Change seemed to evolve into skepticism on about the same time schedule as mine – from his earlier writings to the point where he reached STATE OF FEAR.