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Monday, December 13, 2004
 
Best-selling Volunteer
On December 7, a date that will live in infamy, Michael Crichton released his new novel: State of Fear. It is already a best-seller, ranking #2 on Amazon's sales rank. In this 600+ page novel, Crichton's villain is an ecoterrorist group, and he uses the novel as an op-ed to expose the myth of global warming. He includes footnotes and an appendix, no doubt supporting his point of view. In his story, he reveals why so many people are dumb enough to believe in global warming--special interest groups have tremendous power in shaping the way we view the world by using the powerful but lazy left-wing media.

We are excited that Crichton will be able to muddy the water on this issue in ways that other book-writing volunteers (like Lumborg) never could. In addition to reaching a larger audience, he is sophisticated enough to know that in highly-connected systems, delays in feedback loops decrease the stability of a system in proportion to the length of the delay. We are cautiously optimisitc this book will bring another 3-5 year delay on any policy responses to greenhouse gas emissions.

Buy this book for your family and friends this holiday season!
Comments:
Wait, this is the same guy that sold the idea that we can bring dinosaurs back to life from blood found in amber-trapped pre-historic mosquitoes, right? Damn, why didn't we think of signing him on as a scientific correspondent sooner!?!
 
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