I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out.....Just my enemies.

"No, the jury will see this as a case about helpless, victimized, impoverished people being flooded out of their ancestral homelands. A case about the terror of sea levels rising precipitously and inexplicably with no conceivable cause unless you accept that something extraordinary and unprecedented has affected the entire world in recent years."
 For me this quote is very important and very entertaining. It expresses what is commonly accepted about juries- that they are emotional and that the cases are really not about facts. In a lot of other ways. This quote is interesting because it frames how Crichton sets up his own view through a character who is supposed to support the traditional side of global warming. Even though he is speaking about how to win the case we have the language of inexplicably, no conceivable causes and extraordinary. For me that language is a very false and sensationalist support of global warming because it does not seem that complicated, or inexplicable or extraordinary. In my opinion instead of showing a sort of cynical examination of the trial strategy Crichton is trying to show that eve those characters who do support the cause do so in an almost unwilling manner.

This passage also makes me think of problem selection. In showing what their trail strategy will be the characters are choosing the "problem" of their case, they talk about impeaching the credibility of the hostile experts and talk about the credibility of their own but they chose as their issue the emotional state of the jury, which from my anti Crichton bias would be read as an an attempt by him to further bring down the global warming advocates. This is in fact what really happens through the over all plot of the book, the "terrorists" start seeing their cause so far through their own bias that they are willing to take mega drastic action to get their point across. Their engagement changes so completely to a violent approach that they are completely okay with committing horrible acts because of perceived injustices. This problem selection because of a paradigm mimics, though in a more extreme way what we talked and read about.

In terms of the book it reads horribly like Dan Brown in the usage of "experts" and "facts" as devices for showing the reader and of course the protagonists the truth behind the evil conspiracies. I do enjoy something like this as an audio book if I really cant sleep and I want to have a ton of not particularly interesting and not particularly true information thrown at me. But the violence, sex and gadgets are far superior to Dan Brown.