Where are these facts?

While I still have about 100 pages left of the assigned reading, one thing continues to trouble me. Knowing this is a pseudo-fiction/non-fiction book, the plot makes me want to ask every news anchor who has ever reported a global warming story if they even understand what they're reporting... who funded it, are the words actually from the stated researchers, has the data become so isolated, or Cartesian-ised, that it simply isn't functional anymore (in the context of the issue/the place), etc. etc.

Even as a fictitious book, it does a good job of making you question the bedrock of global warming arguments... as an example, how Drake is constantly reassuring everyone that "It is not speculative. It is happening." Pg. 198 without any proof of this, and actual proof to the contrary (within the lore of the book), creating a huge blackbox effect for the followers of the cause, who have nothing to go off of except reassurances.

The odd conspiracy excerpt from Pg. XIII, also helps create a huge theme right off the bat to lead the reader directly into Crichton's plans... I.E. to create a hook so the reader keeps on chugging, while giving a sort of quasi- CSI style investigation book, allowing himself to place clues to (his?) liking, so as to give this huge contradiction of Global Warming, and create yet another hook for the reader.