UPDATE: Although the book has had a positive review in the subscriber-only Wall St Journal ("a lightning-paced technopolitical thriller") one of the bloggers at the highly readable American Scene sounds a warning:

"...I think the plot of Michael Crichton's latest sounds uncommonly silly -- and the eagerness with which conservatives are jumping to praise it bespeaks an all-too-typical right-wing response to any cultural effort, however mediocre, that somehow sticks it to the Left. If Crichton wants to write a book puncturing global warming panic, that's great . . . but to have the plot revolve (if Ronald Bailey is to be believed) around a cabal of radical eco-terrorists, led by a Ralph Nader clone, who create killer weather events in the hopes of scaring the world into reducing CO2 emissions seems just a little bit -- what's the word I'm looking for? Ah yes: Stupid."