Thursday, January 27, 2005
Fear of Man
This article, via Glenn, doesn’t surprise me. I am on a mailing list that includes the “Killer B’s”: Benford, Brin, and Bear. It’s on encouraging kids to read, and learn to read, through science fiction, which often is what will get an otherwise bored-with-reading kid hooked. There’s a lot of discussion of teaching ideas and so forth.
Lately it has also included bashing on Michael Crichton over being “anti-science,” not merely with State of Fear (which I have not yet read far, but is intriguing for the first few chapters that set things up), but in general.
Not that I would be surprised if some of the facts cited in Crichton’s book are debatable, but even if not a bonfire of delusion fed by power grabbing conspirators, that we are that responsible for climate change is a pretty haughty assumption for humans to make, given what Mr. Sun can do to climate simply by having a hyperactive billionth or so of a solar lifespan.
UPDATE: Added to today’s Beltway Traffic Jam.