The Andromeda Strain is the first book and movie I remember hearing the name Michael Crichton. One of the last times I heard him was a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California; you can find the speech here:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kw/crichton.html
Here is a quote: "I want to argue that it is now time for us to make a major shift in our thinking about the environment, similar to the shift that occurred around the first Earth Day in 1970, when this awareness was first heightened. But this time around, we need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead. "
That book was absolutely awful, I couldn't get past 50 pages or so. Crichton was brutal in his twilight. All the scientists he included in his citations were furious after publication, because he cherry picked carefully from their data and interviews to support the opposite of their views. Michael Crichton was a doctor, not a climatologist.
Look at the coral reefs. Climate change is real, it's happening, it's staring you in the face. Green house gases are extremely simple physics, and CO2 was shown to trap heat about 160 years ago. You can spend a tiny bit of money and conduct an experiment at home that shows it traps heat. If you can disprove any of the simple physics that predicts climate change as greenhouse gases accumulate in our atmosphere you will win a Nobel prize.
Global warming predictions were published in journals almost 100 years ago, and models from around 70 years ago predicting warming were actually too conservative compared to the reality we're seeing today. Learn how to read peer reviewed science instead of depending on science fiction for your world view.
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