Michael Crichton: Big Oil's Favorite 'Journalist'

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The American Association of Petroleum Geologists is presenting its annual journalism award this year to Michael Crichton, the science fiction writer whose latest book, โ€œState of Fear,โ€ dismisses global warming as a largely imaginary threat embraced by malignant scientists for their ownย ends.

โ€œIt is fiction,โ€ conceded Larry Nation, communications director for the association. โ€œBut it has the absolute ring of truthโ€ he told the New Yorkย Times.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which reviews the work of more than 2,000 scientists from 100 countries, we humans are overheating the planet with our burning of oil andย coal.

Dr. James McCarthy, a co-chair of the 2001 IPCC, summed up the findings not only of that panel but also of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society, when he said, โ€œThere is no debate among any statured scientists working on this issue about the larger trends of what is happening to theย climate.โ€

The sole dissenter is a figment of Michael Crichton’s fertileย imagination.


For more on the who’s who of the climate denial industry, check out our comprehensive climate deniers researchย database.

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