いつもご紹介しているNew Scientist誌(電子版）の最新号に次のような記事が載っていました。どなたかMichael Crichtonの最新著"State of Fear" (Harper Collins)をお読みになった方は、その内容や読後感想などを報告して下されば幸いです。ＥＥＥ会議でも先月簡単にご紹介しました。ご参考まで。

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Michael Crichton's stories shape people's view of the world and his next book declares global warming a huge conspiracy - how could he get it so wrong, asks Jeremy Leggett

Jeremy Leggett is chief executive of Solarcentury, the UK's largest independent solar electric company, and a member of the UK government's Renewables Advisory Board. "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton is published by Harper Collins

WHEN I visited America during my time working for Greenpeace International in the 1990s, time and again people would say to me "we really don't approve of the way your organisation blew up that French ship", or words to that effect. It happened once at the end of a meeting with a lawyer in Philadelphia. He was defending Lloyds of London against a suit filed by Exxon after the Valdez oil spill. He wanted to thank me kindly for all the excellent free technical information I had furnished him with in support of his defence, but he really hadn't enjoyed having to talk to me because my people had murdered somebody in New Zealand.
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