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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6683361" data-attributes="member: 8835">In the case of Michael Crighton, I wouldn't look at it that way.His more recent novels have had an activist bent to them.  He finds a science point, writes some fiction about how that could be bad, but the point is to raise awareness that "this thing isn't quite right."I couldn't tell you if his charts and graphs are accurate, but he's the kind of writer to go grab real charts and graphs and paste them into his work.  I've also read the Freakonomics' guys work prior to this, and they raise some similar points about the data not indicating what the common folk think is going on.So, the question raised is whether climate change (formerly known as Global Warming) is really happening in a significant way.  Let alone based on man made factors.  Levitt and Dubner reference how volcanoes impact the global weather (cooling it down) and contrast that to certain kinds of pollution.Factoids I'd be curious to confirm:Of all the glaciers on Earth, is there growth/shrinkage happening?Of the sea level, what has been it's trend over time?Of temperatures around the world, how have they charted outside of cities over time?</blockquote>