We are definitely not the greatest at posting to the site. Sure, there’s tons of stuff that we mean to post here or could post here but generally it comes up when we’re nowhere near a computer to enter it. By the time we are there, we’ve forgotten – especially Dory.
That said, there is one thing that I’ve been meaning to post for the past little while and am just now getting around to it. (Of course, I should be in bed since I have to get up in less than six hours)
This past weekend I had the opportunity to read Michael Crichton’s newest release State of Fear. Like most of his novels, SoF is a techno-thriller that centers around the universe that is global warming and eco-terrorism. When was the last time you read a FICTIONAL book that sported a 17+ page bibliography and data reference at the end of it? Yes, that’s seventeen-plus pages! This guy did his homework. So while the story is fictional the data and science behind the story is culled directly from many different references. The thing that I found most interesting is that the data shows that global warming doesn’t really exist (and by the amount of snow on the ground outside I have no trouble believing it). In fact data seems to show that there has actually been an overall COOLING trend across the globe in the past 150 or so years. Not a significant decrease but still a decrease in average temperature. So, regardless of your beliefs about global warming, if you enjoy reading you owe it to yourself to read this novel. After all, how often can you be entertained AND actually learn something at the same time?
Oh yeah, by the way – next time you see Nikki, ask her how she’s feeling – she really likes that.