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I don't agree that this is an accurate characterization of Crichton's perspective.



Suuuure, he was actually trying to ensure society moved forward viable solutions to anthropogenic climate change by repeatedly asserting there was actually no evidence of its existence, misrepresenting accurate past predictions of warming in order to discredit them, even writing a book in which the natural disasters attributed to climate change were actually part of a murderous conspiracy to fake it, with a great big long appendix about the dangers of scientists advising government on public policy when contrarians like him could be doing that instead...




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