Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Censoring Research on Global Warming

According a link provided by TongueTied, research that suggests that Global Warming is not caused by greenhouse gasses has been censored. Doing a brief Google search reveals no publishing of that information. Which means it either was censored or it never existed. I don't know which. But based on a (fiction) book I recently read by Michael Crichton, I do not doubt that the censorship could have happened. In Crichton's (he also wrote Jurassic Park) book State of Fear, the fictional story is based on actual research. Not everything about global warming may be true.

I recommend reading State of Fear because it is a great, fictional, thriller. But I also think that reading it could encourage thinking differently about global warming. I especially like the post-script that Crichton wrote regarding his ideas for scientific research funding.

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