Fiction and climate change
September 29, 2005 Uncategorized
Yesterday Michael Crichton spoke in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee about “the facts” of climate change. We like Jurassic Park as much as the next guy (well, honestly, we don’t even like it that much), but how does writing science-fiction books on climate change make you an expert? At least Sen. Jim Jeffords was seeing sense:
Mr. Chairman, given the profound human suffering and ecological damage along the Gulf Coast, why are we having a hearing that features a fiction writer as our key witness? Some may accuse me, as a policy maker, of falling into the exact policy trap that Mr. Crichton’s book critiques — being too focused on the consequences of the recent large scale natural disasters and our nation’s policy response to them.
Next, let’s have the authors of The Nanny Diaries consult with a Senate Committee on the state of child care in this country.
[Thanks to Gristmill]
added note: This is post 1001 for us. Whoo hoo!
Comments (7)
Who is the next speaker, Pikachu?
Bad science + bad politics = bad decisions = Kyoto.
What bothered me about Kyoto is that the worlds two biggest polluters, China and India, were not even part of it. They are considered “developing countries”. I guess since all of our jobs and factories are going there, that makes the US a less developed country??
No kidding. *Raises WTF flag*
Michael Crichton does have an M.D. He is wildly wrong about global warming and libels the environmental movement in his recent novel, but he did have a scientific education.
Michael Crichton does have an M.D. He is wildly wrong about global warming and libels the environmental movement in his recent novel, but he did have a scientific education.
That’s nothing. Global warming has gotten so bad, it’s reached Mars: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/newsroom/20050920a.htm
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