Crichton Plunges Into Environment Debate
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Michael Crichton is a big man with big ideas, a storyteller of nearly 7 feet who turns popular science into popular fiction.
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A new study claims to undermine the key argument used by people sceptical of climate change.
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The world&#39;s chief climate scientist on Tuesday disputed the US government contention that cutbacks in carbon dioxide emissions are not yet warranted to check global warming.
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Some scientists are thinking twice about doing or reporting certain research, reacting to political and social controversy in addition to legal restrictions.
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Scientists disagree on whether the region's high subsidence rates are natural or due to human intervention.
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.
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World scientists gather next week to discuss the climate change crisis threatening the planet amid stark warnings that the time for talking is over and action is urgently needed.
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The head of the U.N. panel on climate change compared him to Hitler. Another leading scientist called him a parasite. A third described his latest book as a "stealth attack" on mankind.
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Disdaining environmentalism in the battle against global warming.
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The head of NASA drew criticism from scientists when he said he was not sure global warming was a problem and added that it would be "arrogant" to assume the world's climate should not change in the future.
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A scientific scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the worldâs most vulnerable ice sheets can continue to accelerate.
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Billionaire Richard Branson hopes to entice researchers to seek methods to contain climate damage. By the Associated Press.
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The latest work by million-selling novelist Michael Crichton is a futuristic thriller set in the present. "Next," to be released Nov. 28 by HarperCollins, has an announced first printing of 2 million and a storyline the publisher bills as "fast, furious and out of control."
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Sci-fi like Michael Crichton's "Next" brings up the most important ethical conversations we're not having
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Scientists and pitchmen press for a more effective name for "global warming.".
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The Government&#39;s chief scientist has warned the world must act fast to combat global warming or face the dire consequences. Professor Sir David King said climate change cannot be avoided and that &quot;action is affordable, inaction is not&quot;.
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An unlikely meeting of minds on an issue of global concern.