Save your righteous indignation for someone who’s impressed by it. Michael Crichton was a competent novelist and I’m sure he did a good job when he was a working M.D. As a climate scientist he didn’t know his ass from his elbow.

Michael Crichton wasn’t even a denier. He acknowledged the rising global temperature and changing climate. He acknowledged need for reducing pollutions. What he was standing against was this type of alarmism.

And his book “State of Fear” flawed? Well, what flaws do you mean? You know, the British court ruled Al-Gores movie as flawed, we know that Stern’s report is flawed, we also know for sure that IPCC reports have many discrepancies. Why would you tolerate these political pieces of crap while condemning the novelist?

No one is claiming perfect knowledge. But for all practical purposes, there are some things we can be blithely sure about. The Earth really DOES go around the Sun. And global warming really IS caused by side-effects of human technology. Deal with it.

I’m a newby to the climate debate but I do understand the scientific method. Anytime anyone claims they are absolutely certain about their science you can be assured they are just fooling themselves. Real scientists know that absolute certainty is a fools game.

From what I’ve been able to understand in my brief study of climate is that it is an extremely complex and chaotic system. I would suggest that those who claim perfect knowledge to do a little historical reading of just about any other field of science. You will find advancement to be a series of false starts, failures and an occasional giant step forward. Many of the false starts and failures were accepted at one time as givens.

I hope to learn more in the future as I continue to read and review the material that has been written in the debate. I will not becoming back to this site as it is clear I will learn NOTHING here.

The punishment for being an ‘Infidel’ is beheading with a dull knife. So what is the punishment for being a ‘Denier’?

[JR: You need to look up "Infidel" in Wikipedia. You might learn something. The punishment for being a denier is the rather growing knowledge as you age that you have contributed to the self-destruction of the human race and, if you have children or nieces and nephews, that you have left the world a poored place for them, thus failing in perhaps the most important task of your lifetime.]

https://ccpp.llnl.gov/

Global warming is not the only issue impacting water-related matters. Or as the UN said in 2006 “Water insufficiency is often due to mismanagement, corruption, lack of appropriate institutions, bureaucratic inertia and a shortage of investment in both human capacity and physical infrastructure”

When it comes to water issues the focus should be on wastewater treatment and groundwater overdrafting reduction. And on technologies such as solar distillation and nuclear desalinization.

Just like any other matter; primary focus should be on that issue itself, and then on its global warming aspects (mitigation, adaptation and low-carbon economic) as appropriate.

These issues are not either/or, they’re all and more.

Starving unhealthy people with no home are more concerned about clean water and control of disease-bearing insects than they are if next July or July 2100 has a mean temperature of 2 or 4 Celsius higher than this July’s

Global warming means, among other things, more droughts in continental interiors and more violent weather along coastlines. Both mean damage to agricultural production. And the fact that glaciers worldwide are melting means 100 million or more people in Asia are seeing their primary source of fresh water go away. Thus, mitigating global warming is crucial to helping the people who need clean water get it.