By: Michael Crichton Publisher: Avon Average Rating: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Label: Avon Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 672 Publication Date: November 01, 2005 Release Date: October 25, 2005
In Tokyo, in Los Angeles, in Antarctica, in the Solomon Islands . . . an intelligence agent races to put all the pieces together to prevent a global catastrophe.
A wake-up call for those who have been fooled by junk science. Those who promote global warming as a fact need to get their facts straight. The information provided in this book is accurate and the fact that a lot of the information has now been removed from public access (as described in the book) should be enough to make anybody think long and hard before subscribing to the current politically correct view.
On global warming the science is far from settled. Many of the sceptics are leaders in their fields and the current smear campaign is despicable.
Who would you rather trust, the people who hide the data that doesn't agree with their pet theory or agenda or the people who are open and share all of their data?
Remember that the IPCC findings were funded by the UN. What else has the UN done well so that you are so adamant in supporting them.
The science used to present man made global warming as the correct theory has been thoroughly debunked. Test have shown that none of the computer models used were capable of predicting the current climate when applied to data taken as little as ten years ago and yet people still believe these same models can tell us what the climate will be at the end of this century.
Calling scientists names like "climate denier" in a bald faced attempt to class them with holocaust deniers is unacceptable.
Read this book, especially the added information provided by the author.
Very Enjoyable... After just finishing "State of Fear," I found the book to be very enjoyable. Michael Crichton, as always, does a phenomenal job of educating the reader about current issues, while using real-life data to support his view.
In this book, it's largely about global warming and its affect on various environmental issues. Particularly, it's about an organization known as NERF that's sole goal is to help the environment. As is typical with organizations like this, the bureaucracy causes the organization to require significant funds to make a difference. Thus, requiring, as in the book, wealthy individuals to make contributions.
Regardless, I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It's very fast paced, and a hard book to put down. Hard to imagine I read a 600 page book as quickly as I did. Michael Crichton does a good job building characters and leading the reader through the complicated, well researched road.
While some may be disappointed in the overall topic of the book, maybe look at it merely as a science fiction book. No doubt that's not how he meant it to be, but by taking the book as it is (a work of fiction) I'm sure you'll find the book to be highly enjoyable. I certainly did.
Good one There are a lot of strong opinions on the book and for good reason. The book covers some controversial issues: I.E. validity in the globaly warming theory. I thought that the story was excellently paced and exciting while scattered with carefully selected pieces of information regarding global warming.
Regardless of your stance on the -theory- of global warming it should be emphasized that people are profitting, GREATLY, from the concept. Even if you are a die hard advocate of the theory I'd recommend the book because it does lead one to wonder about the organizations with which they choose to associate.
State of Fear by Michael Crichton It is nothing wrong with being a contrarian about Global Warming, and especially pointing out all the special interests that play on the public fear to enrich themselves. Michael Crichton made a good point about that, and that's the best part about this book. The story however is most contrived, incomplete, and amateurish. I was shocked that this book ever saw the light of print.
Below Crichton Standars
This book has raised the most controversy of all his work. In my opinion he misleads the reader on Global Warming, he defenitely mislead me, only after further study I came up with different facts on the subject. I love his writing and the story is ok, you have to understand that some of his books start by confusing the reader on what is real and actual and what is fiction, is his style. But I do recommend reading further information about global warming before making any judment about the subject.
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1942: John Michael Crichton is born in Chicago, Illinois on Oct. 23.
