I had not previously read any of Crichton’s books, but when State of Fear gained notoriety for its treatment of global warming I picked it up and read it through all the way to the end of the bibliography on page 672. Joe Romm on Climate Progress has written an excellent, excoriating commentary on Crichton’s legacy (“Michael Crichton, world’s most famous global warming denier, dies,” November 5, see below for an excerpt) that nails key points.
But he sullied his legacy with State of Fear and his attacks on the climate science community. Michael Crichton’s writing kept a lot of people entertained. President Obama can begin to set things right by showing that he is instead meeting directly with leading scientists and learning from them.
President Bush met directly with Crichton while snubbing real scientists. We usually hold back on criticism of the recently deceased, but as the appreciation pieces are being written we’ll say for the record that the late Michael Crichton did a disservice with his denialist potboiler novel State of Fear, which abused climate scientists and environmentalists.
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