Editing Michael Crichton (section)

===Global warming===
{{Further|Antarctica cooling controversy}}
Crichton became well known for [[Climate change denial|attacking]] the [[Scientific consensus on climate change|science]] behind [[global warming]]. He testified on the subject before Congress in 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/sep/29/comment.bookscomment|title=Comment: Michael Crichton testifies on global warming|first=Jamie|last=Wilson|date=September 29, 2005|work=The Guardian|access-date=May 1, 2020|archive-date=June 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629072505/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/sep/29/comment.bookscomment|url-status=live}}</ref> His views would be contested by a number of scientists and commentators.<ref name="ucsusa">{{cite news|url=http://go.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_warming/page.cfm?pageID=1670~|title=Crichton's Thriller State of Fear: Separating Fact from Fiction|publisher=[[Union of Concerned Scientists]]|access-date=August 21, 2020|archive-date=April 30, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430012139/http://go.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_warming/page.cfm?pageID=1670|url-status=dead}}</ref> An example is meteorologist [[Jeffrey Masters]]'s review of Crichton's 2004 novel ''[[State of Fear]]'':{{blockquote|Flawed or misleading presentations of global warming science exist in the book, including those on Arctic sea ice thinning, correction of land-based temperature measurements for the [[urban heat island]] effect, and [[Satellite temperature measurements|satellite]] vs. ground-based measurements of Earth's warming. I will spare the reader additional details. On the positive side, Crichton does emphasize the little-appreciated fact that while most of the world has been warming the past few decades, most of Antarctica has seen a cooling trend. The [[Antarctic ice sheet]] is actually expected to increase in mass over the next 100 years due to increased precipitation, according to the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change|IPCC]].|Jeffery M. Masters, 2004<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wunderground.com/education/stateoffear.asp |title=Review of Michael Crichton's ''State of Fear'' |author=Masters, Jeffery M. |publisher=[[Weather Underground (weather service)|Weather Underground]] |access-date=2007-10-14 |archive-date=December 30, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041230102058/http://www.wunderground.com/education/stateoffear.asp |url-status=dead}}</ref>}}

[[Peter Doran]], author of the paper in the January 2002 issue of ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', which reported the finding referred to above, stating that some areas of Antarctica had cooled between 1986 and 2000, wrote an opinion piece in ''[[The New York Times]]'' of July 27, 2006, in which he stated "Our results have been misused as 'evidence' against global warming by Michael Crichton in his novel ''State of Fear.''"<ref name=Doran06>{{cite news |author=Doran, Peter |title=Cold, Hard Facts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/opinion/27doran.html |work=The New York Times |date=July 27, 2006 |access-date=February 22, 2017 |archive-date=August 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823031225/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/opinion/27doran.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Al Gore]] said on March 21, 2007, before a U.S. House committee: "The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor... if your doctor tells you you need to intervene here, you don't say 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that tells me it's not a problem.{{' "}} Several commentators have interpreted this as a reference to ''State of Fear''.<ref>[http://news.ansible.co.uk/a237.html#05 Knights of the Limits] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429230120/http://news.ansible.co.uk/a237.html#05 |date=April 29, 2007}} Ansible 237, April 2007</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Climate of fear |url=https://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/04/01/climate_of_fear/ |work=The Boston Globe |date=April 1, 2007 |first1=Joshua |last1=Glenn |access-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204746/http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/04/01/climate_of_fear/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=More from 'Inconvenient Gore' |url=http://www.alaskareport.com/do77777.htm |work=Alaska Report |date=March 22, 2007 |access-date=September 20, 2008 |archive-date=July 25, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725041806/http://www.alaskareport.com/do77777.htm |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.farnorthscience.com/2007/03/13/climate-news/that-inconvenient-gore/|title=That Inconvenient Gore|date=March 13, 2007|publisher=farnorthscience.com|access-date=March 14, 2011|archive-date=July 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710224606/http://www.farnorthscience.com/2007/03/13/climate-news/that-inconvenient-gore/|url-status=live}}</ref>