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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 10K a day who wrote (3721)	6/9/2005 10:13:53 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 9838

The price of fear "Michael Crichton's technopolitical thriller 'State of Fear' ... turns on a controversial notion: that all the talk we've been hearing about global warming -- polar ice caps melting, weather systems sent into calamitous confusion, beach weather lingering into January -- might be at best misguided, at worst dead wrong. It's 'The Da Vinci Code' with real facts, violent storms, and a different kind of faith altogether. ... " 'State of Fear' is, in a sense, the novelization of a speech Crichton delivered in September 2003 at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club. He argued there that environmentalism is essentially a religion, a belief system based on faith, not fact. To make this point, the novel weaves real scientific data and all-too-real political machinations into the twists and turns of its story. ... "Crichton gets the scaremongers exactly right throughout 'State of Fear.' ... The actual amount [of funds raised] for just the 12 largest environmental lobby groups in the U.S. in 2002 was almost $2 billion. That buys a lot of influence in Washington." -- Ronald Bailey, writing on "The Global Warming Code," in the May issue of Reason