Excellent book. Truth!-----What Michael Crichton Taught Us About Scientific Fraud | Climate Dispatch

What Michael Crichton Taught Us About Scientific Fraud | Climate Dispatch

"...Below is a key short extract in which Crichton deftly summarizes the reality of nature and man through the character, Kenner. (emphasis added)

...Our atmosphere is as violent as the land beneath it. At any moment there are one thousand five hundred electrical storms across the planet. Eleven lighting bolts strike the earth every second. A tornado tears across the surface every six hours. And every four days a giant cyclonic storm, hundreds of miles in diameter, spins over the ocean and wreaks havoc on the land.

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. For these same apes to imagine they can stabilize this atmosphere is arrogant beyond belief. They can’t control the climate.

The reality is, they run from the storms.

What may we interpret from this?

The world is not going to end and neither is civilization going to end.

 Cold, not heat, is to be feared.  Life has survived both extremes of climates. What is termed as extreme weather events have always existed.

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