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Originally Posted by Avinash_Tyagi
Skimmed it.
Crichton is an author not a Scientist and this book like all of his others reflect this. The book is about as factually true as the movie "The day after tommorow"  |
Science fiction of course. But his point was that it is all science fiction at this point in time. Scientific data has shown two divergent results. Granted the books footnotes all lean in one direction, but he argues in the appendices a balanced viewpoint.
Perhaps his most powerful point is that the computer modeling the environmentalists use for trumpeting their catastrophic crisis-laden view, is based on guesswork in the setting of initial variables such as weighing factors. This is due to the fact that we don't yet have a good enough understanding of this global process.
