Despite their popularity, Chrichton's novels and their dramatizations have often had a mean spirited and often biased agenda. Look at "Disclosure", which tells us all that it's really those predatory women who harass those poor innocent male executives, or "Sphere", which contains a nasty and thinly disguised character assassination of Carl Sagan, or "Airframe", with its portrayal of innocent airplane manufacturers at the mercy of those evil reporters who have the nerve to investigate whether a manufacturer might make mistakes and not report them (Challenger, anyone?).In this novel, he misunderstands and misquotes environmental science to convince everyone that there's not only not an issue there, but that we're all being manipulated by evil environmentalists. [...]