History YMMV / StateOfFear

* HarsherInHindsight: "[[{{Scandalgate}} Climategate and glaciergate]]" (the claims that the graphs popularly used to calculate and predict the effects of GlobalWarming were [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie allegedly miscalculated]]) add up a curious wrinkle to the book's premise of global warming being a hoax. The book's general theme, in general, has grown rather dark in the 2010s as global warming brings increasingly more catastrophic consequences and the book's claims read much more as malicious and harmful denialism than they were when it was written.

* HarsherInHindsight: "[[{{Scandalgate}} Climategate and glaciergate]]" (the claims that the graphs popularly used to calculate and predict the effects of GlobalWarming were [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie allegedly miscalculated]]) add up a curious wrinkle to the book's premise of global warming being a hoax. The book's general theme, in general, has grown rather dark in the 2010s as global warming brings increasingly more catastrophic consequences and the book's claims read much more malicious and harmful denialism than they were then it was written.

* HarsherInHindsight: "[[{{Scandalgate}} Climategate and glaciergate]]" (the claims that the graphs popularly used to calculate and predict the effects of GlobalWarming were [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie allegedly miscalculated]]) add up a curious wrinkle to the book's premise of global warming being a hoax. The book's general theme, in general, has grown rather dark in the 2010s as global warming brings increasingly more catastrophic consequences and the book's claims read much more malicious and harmful denialism than they were then it was written.
* WhatAnIdiot: Peter Evans finds that his apartment has been broken into and he himself has been bugged, then several people try to kill him in various ways, but he takes no precautions at all and returns to his apartment as if nothing happened. It's hardly surprising then the bad guys break in and try to assassinate him. Fortunately for Peter they use one of the most bizarre and ineffective means imaginable.

* CriticalResearchFailure: To say that the book is wrong about climate change would be understatement. It is considered a novel-length disaster by actual climatologists, who accuse the book of being a giant collection of LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics, half-truths and cherry-picking. See [[https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/solutions/fight-misinformation/crichton-thriller-state-of.html here]] for a rebuttal from experts.

* HarsherInHindsight: "[[{{Scandalgate}} Climategate and glaciergate]]" (the claims that the graphs popularly used to calculate and predict the effects of GlobalWarming were [[BasedOnAGreatBiLie allegedly miscalculated]]) add up a curious wrinkle to the book's premise of global warming being a hoax. The book's general theme, in general, has grown rather dark in the 2010s as global warming brings increasingly more catastrophic consequences and the book's claims read much more malicious and harmful denialism than they were then it was written.

* HarsherInHindsight: "[[{{Scandalgate}} Climategate and glaciergate]]" (the famous revelations that the graphs popularly used to calculate and predict the effects of GlobalWarming were...miscalculated) are either 1) [[VindicatedByHistory the first signs that the plot of the book is true, crumbling though a wall of lies]], or 2) [[HanlonsRazor minor technical errors]] that were caught by the media rather than peer academics, depending on your preconceived notions. Rorschach Gates, if you will--what you see in them depends on the contents of your thoughts, rather than of the gate.

* HarsherInHindsight: "[[{{Scandalgate}} Climategate and glaciergate]]" (the famous revelations that the graphs popularly used to calculate and predict the effects of ClimateChange were...miscalculated) are either 1) [[VindicatedByHistory the first signs that the plot of the book is true, crumbling though a wall of lies]], or 2) [[HanlonsRazor minor technical errors]] that were caught by the media rather than peer academics, depending on your preconceived notions. Rorschach Gates, if you will--what you see in them depends on the contents of your thoughts, rather than of the gate.

* HarsherInHindsight: "[[{{Scandalgate}} Climategate and glaciergate]]" (the famous revelations that the graphs popularly used to calculate and predict the effects of ClimateChange were...miscalculated) are either 1) [[VindicatedByHistory the first signs that the plot of the book is true, crumbling though a wall of lies]], or 2) [[HanlonsRazor minor technical errors]] that were caught by the media rather than peer academics, depending on your preconceived notions. Rorschach Gates, if you will- what you see in them depends on the contents of your thoughts, rather than of the gate.
* WhatAnIdiot: Peter Evens finds that his apartment has been broken into and he himself has been bugged, then several people try to kill him in various ways, but he takes no precautions at all and returns to his apartment as if nothing happened. It's hardly surprising then the bad guys break in and try to assassinate him. Fortunately for Peter they use one of the most bizarre and ineffective means imaginable.

* ScienceMarchesOn: One of the arguments against climate change in the book (that the upper atmosphere wasn't warming) got disproven less than a year after the book came out (the apparent lack of warming was due to a miscalibration of satellite data). Of course, most of the arguments in the book were already known to be false, even at the time. Amusingly enough, "Climategate" revealed the computer models used to calculate the effects of climate change were miscalibrated ''again''!

* HarsherInHindsight: "[[{{Scandalgate}} Climategate and glaciergate]]" (the famous revelations that the graphs popularly used to calculate and predict the effects of GlobalWarming were...miscalculated) are either 1) [[VindicatedByHistory the first signs that the plot of the book is true, crumbling though a wall of lies]], or 2) [[HanlonsRazor minor technical errors]] that were caught by the media rather than peer academics, depending on your preconceived notions. Rorschach Gates, if you will- what you see in them depends on the contents of your thoughts, rather than of the gate.

* WhatAnIdiot: Peter Evens finds that his apartment has been broken in to and he himself has been bugged, then several people try to kill him in various ways, but he takes no precautions at all and returns to his apartment as if nothing happened. It's hardly surprising then the bad guys break in and try to assassinate him. Fortunately for Peter they use one of the most bizarre and ineffective means imaginable.

* ScienceMarchesOn: One of the arguments against climate change in the book (that the upper atmosphere wasn't warming) got disproven less than a year after the book came out (the apparent lack of warming was due to a miscalibration of satellite data). Of course, most of the arguments in the book were already known to be false, even at the time.
** Amusingly enough, "Climategate" revealed the computer models used to calculate the effects of climate change were miscalibrated ''again''!

* GodModeSue: Professor John Kenner graduated from an MIT engineering course and a Harvard Law course, both at higher than average speed; became a professor at MIT at the age of 28 and still manages to be a hot-shot federal agent. Oh, and he can quote geological surveys from memory. The only thing keeping him from being absolutely perfect is his once confessing he isn't good at languages and a major WhatAnIdiot moment (chasing a group of bad guys into a warehouse, finding no one there, and going into a room with a lightning generator without bothering to secure the door).

* GodModeSue: Professor John Kenner graduated from an MIT engineering course and a Harvard Law course, both at higher than average speed; became a professor at MIT at the age of 28 and still manages to be a hot-shot federal agent. Oh, and he can quote geological surveys from memory. The only thing keeping him from being absolutely perfect is his once confessing he isn't good at languages and a major What An Idiot moment (chasing a group of bad guys into a warehouse, finding no one there, and going into a room with a lightning generator without bothering to secure the door).

* ScienceMarchesOn" One of the arguments against climate change in the book (that the upper atmosphere wasn't warming) got disproven less than a year after the book came out (the apparent lack of warming was due to a miscalibration of satellite data). Of course, most of the arguments in the book were already known to be false, even at the time.

* ScienceMarchesOn One of the arguments against climate change in the book (that the upper atmosphere wasn't warming) got disproven less than a year after the book came out (the apparent lack of warming was due to a miscalibration of satellite data). Of course, most of the arguments in the book were already known to be false, even at the time.

* HarsherInHindsight: "[[{{Scandalgate}} Climategate and glaciergate]]" are either [[VindicatedByHistory the first signs that the plot of the book is true crumbling though a wall of lies]], or two [[HanlonsRazor minor technical errors]] that were caught by the media rather than peer academics, depending on your preconceived notions. Rorschach Gates, if you will- what you see in them depends on the contents of your thoughts, rather than of the gate.

* {{Anvilicious}}: If [[strike:Crichton's]] other [[AuthorFilibuster filibusters]] fly over your head, the ending's about as subtle as Man-Bear-Pig tackling you, in which the [[spoiler:not very dead guy who appeared to be supporting the ELF]] more or less says "Focus on the third-world countries that are often the biggest offenders in polluting by tackling poverty, then you can work on climate change." Oh, he ''hates'' simulations, despite covering it with ''Literature/JurassicPark''. Simulations won't predict [[spoiler: tsunamis ruining your shit or car crashes.]]

* {{Anvilicious}}: If Crichton's other [[AuthorFilibuster filibusters]] fly over your head, the ending's about as subtle as Man-Bear-Pig tackling you, in which the [[spoiler:not very dead guy who appeared to be supporting the ELF]] more or less says "Focus on the third-world countries that are often the biggest offenders in polluting by tackling poverty, then you can work on climate change." Oh, he ''hates'' simulations, despite covering it with ''Literature/JurassicPark''. Simulations won't predict [[spoiler: tsunamis ruining your shit or car crashes.]]

* UnfortunateImplications: The Third World cannibals.

* ScienceMarchesOn One of the arguments against Climate Change in the book (that the upper atmosphere wasn't warming) got disproven less than a year after the book came out. (The apparent lack of warming was due to a miscalibration of satellite data.) Of course, most of the arguments in the book were already known to be false, even at the time.

* {{Anvilicious}}: If Crichton's other [[AuthorFilibuster filibusters]] fly over your head, the ending's about as subtle as Man-Bear-Pig tackling you, in which the [[spoiler:not very dead guy who appeared to be supporting the ELF]] more or less says "Focus on the third-world countries that are often the biggest offenders in polluting by tackling poverty, then you can work on climate change. Oh, he ''hates'' simulations, despite covering it with ''Literature/JurassicPark''. Simulations won't predict [[spoiler: tsunamis ruining your shit or car crashes.]]

* {{Anvilicious}}: If Crichton's other [[AuthorFilibuster filibusters]] fly over your head, the ending's about as subtle as Man-Bear-Pig tackling you, in which the [[spoiler:not very dead guy who appeared to be supporting the ELF]] more or less says "Focus on the third-world countries that are often the biggest offenders in polluting by tackling poverty, then you can work on climate change. Oh, he ''hates'' simulations, despite covering it with JurassicPark. Simulations won't predict [[spoiler: tsunamis ruining your shit or car crashes.]]

* ExcusePlot: The main purpose of the novel is to argue that GlobalWarming is a hoax.

* YourMileageMayVary: If you've already picked a side on this global warming thing, you'll have a side here.