Hmmm so their goes that -4 carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide since you have to fuel up more to get where your going.
Posted on 02/18/2006 9:03:04 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
One of the perquisites of being president is the ability to have the author of a book you enjoyed pop into the White House for a chat.
Over the years, a number of writers have visited President Bush, including Natan Sharansky, Bernard Lewis and John Lewis Gaddis. And while the meetings are usually private, they rarely ruffle feathers.
Now, one has.
In his new book about Mr. Bush, "Rebel in Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush," Fred Barnes recalls a visit to the White House last year by Michael Crichton, whose 2004 best-selling novel, "State of Fear," suggests that global warming is an unproven theory and an overstated threat.
Mr. Barnes, who describes Mr. Bush as "a dissenter on the theory of global warming," writes that the president "avidly read" the novel and met the author after Karl Rove, his chief political adviser, arranged it. He says Mr. Bush and his guest "talked for an hour and were in near-total agreement."
"The visit was not made public for fear of outraging environmentalists all the more," he adds.
And so it has, fueling a common perception among environmental groups that Mr. Crichton's dismissal of global warming, coupled with his popularity as a novelist and screenwriter, has undermined efforts to pass legislation intended to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a gas that leading scientists say causes climate change.
Mr. Crichton, whose views in "State of Fear" helped him win the American Association of Petroleum Geologists' annual journalism award this month, has been a leading doubter of global warming and last September appeared before a Senate committee to argue that the supporting science was mixed, at best.
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Heartening.
Have read, and enjoyed, the book. Pokes some fun at the Hollywood green types too.
Iced in here in OKC, could use a little warming right now.
On my "To Read" list; sitting on my nightstand.
Excellent.
I especially liked the part where the pompous ass Hollyweird actor "who plays the President on TV" (modeled after Martin Sheen) gets eaten by cannibals.
One more time. Consider the source.
The dreaded NYT.
Pass.
Aren't environmentalists perpetually "alarmed" at something?
So does E85 NOT emit carbon dioxide?
I read it, and like many of Crichton's books it's way over the top, but the foot notes are real. The theme of the book is what's important, and that is that scientists like anyone else, know which side of their bread is buttered. These days, any scientist that comes up with data that doesn't prove "Global Warming" doesn't get the grant, tenure or a spot on stage.
Cleanup on aisle 3!!
There are some mental images we were NOT meant to see....
Crichton has been taking a lot of heat for disagreeing with what has become dogma. The simple fact is that the alarmists have always been wrong on population, on energy, and I think they are wrong again on global warming. There are a lot of good things that could come from a more temperate global climate and regardless implementing painful political regimens which accomplish little more than to punish ourselves in an attempt to change something we can not control will solve nothing. We can not even get a simple habitat functioning "correctly" in a sealed biosphere and the idea that we can some how "fix" the global climate when the definition of broken is something we are not certain of is more than a little absurd.
Supposed to be 15 here tonight....30 miles south of Seattle....and it's been blowing and cold for 3 days....GLOBAL warming my arse!
Hmmm so their goes that -4 carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide since you have to fuel up more to get where your going.
Not that I know, but I gain the impression that environmentism functions as a kind of relgion for many people. To them the biosphere is like some huge organism, and who are like cancer cells that are killing it.
For the past several days we have enjoyed lows in the middle to high teens, low 20s, with daily highs in the mid to low 30s. This is about 10-25 degrees below most normal highs and lows. So, send some of that warm air this way. Tomorrow the heat wave is predicted at 47 and sunny, so we will bask in its glow because starting Tuesday, the 10 day forecast is back to mid-40 highs, low 30s for nights and rain, rain, rain/snow mix, and more rain again. Back to normal! Uggggggggggg.
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