October 26, 2006

Newsweek Admits Error With Global Cooling Predictions, Guarantees Global Warming

Via Ace:
Oct. 23, 2006 - In April, 1975, in an issue mostly taken up with stories about the collapse of the American-backed government of South Vietnam, NEWSWEEK published a small back-page article about a very different kind of disaster. Citing "ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically," the magazine warned of an impending "drastic decline in food production." Political disruptions stemming from food shortages could affect "just about every nation on earth." Scientists urged governments to consider emergency action to head off the terrible threat of . . . well, if you had been following the climate-change debates at the time, you'd have known that the threat was: global cooling.
Newsweek actually gives its article the title "Why scientists find climate change so hard to predict", but insists that global warming/climate change is the real deal this time.

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