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Techno-Thriller Author Calls Global Warming "Junk Science."

Michael Crichton is an author and producer. He is best-known for his science fiction novels, and describes his writing style as "techno-thriller."

Crichton was raised in Roslyn, Long Island with his two sisters, Kimberly and Catherine, and brother, Douglas.

After graduating from Harvard Medical School, he embarked his career in writing and film making. Some of his famous novels include The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Jurassic Park, and State of Fear, an Disclosure. He has always been interested in computers, and ran a software company, FilmTrack, during the 1980s, which developed computer programs for motion picture production.

He has also written the screenplay for Twister, and is the creator and executive producer of the television drama, ER.

Aside from his fiction, Crichton wrote several novels based on scientific themes including Travels, Electronic Life, Westworld, and Runaway.

He has sold over 150 million books, most have which been translated into thirty-six languages; 13 have been made into films.

Crichton has given a number of speeches, including his lecture at Caltech entitled "Aliens Cause Global Warming," which expressed his views of the dangers of what he calls "junk science," specifically in regard to theories like nuclear winter and global warming. He commented that believe without fact is akin to faith, and faith alone is not a proper foundation for science.