Which Novelist Did George W. Bush Meet To Discuss Global Warming?

Michael Crichton, a former medical doctor, became an author of best-selling novels, many of them grounded in science, and several of which were made into Hollywood films, including, most famously, Jurassic Park.

In his novel State of Fear, Crichton takes on environmentalists, portraying them as fanatics and crackpots whose obsession with global warming has no basis in scientific reality and leads to great practical harm. Environmentalists have denounced Crichton's work as foolish and irresponsible but, in 2005, he was invited to give expert testimony on global warming issues to a committee of the U.S. Senate.


In the same year, Crichton was also apparently invited to the White House to confer with President Bush on the problem of global warming. The meeting remained secret until 2006 when right-wing journalist Fred Barnes revealed it in his book 'Rebel-in-Chief : Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush.' Barnes wrote that Crichton and Bush saw fully eye-to-eye on the global warming issue, though White House spokesmen have insisted that Barnes may have mischaracterised the extent of their agreement.

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