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I very much enjoyed some of Michael Crichton's books - others not quite as much. Still I was a satisfied paying customer and so I have to say that I'll miss his work.
Now as to anthropogenic global warming I do have to say that I have some serious questions about the information I hear in the media. I understand that average temperatures are increasing and have been for at least the last three decades (there may have been a blip since 1998 but it's irrelevant for my argument.) I also understand that carbon dioxide levels have been rising in the same period.
What I disagree with is that this correlation means that human-generated carbon dioxide is the sole cause of the last half-century's overall temperature increase.
Too many proponents take it as an article of faith that this correlation means that the Sun has no effect on climate change and that it is completely due to human actions. I can't agree. We don't know enough about it to say that definitively.
I'm not saying that human actions have no effect, I'm sure they do and they may even be the primary cause of climate change. (I'm not 100% sold on that but I won't rule it out.) What I am saying is that we cannot discount the possibility that variations in output from the planet's primary source of heat are having an effect as well.
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