Woa there hombre. Let me see if I understand what you are saying….You are saying that you want me to believe a science FICTION writer over peer reviewed science
Crichton does an excellent job of footnoting his references, all of which are valid scientific resources.
Glaciers are melting, yes, how much detailed information do we have? little actually. California has several hundreds glaciers. How many do we have a decent ice flow data on? Virtually none.