And so, on to the counterpoint:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163999,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188176,00.html

Quote:

Oh boy... "Global Warming Heats Up" - "The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis will hit so soonâ??and what we can do about it." (Time cover story)

Not quite 32 years. That's how long since Time was running on the global cooling thing: Another Ice Age? (.pdf June 24, 1974). They were no orphans with their cooling hand-wringing of course, who could forget The Cooling World (.pdf Newsweek, April 28, 1975)?

So, what are we to make of Time's current suite of warming wails? Probably not much, as the climate oscillates so too does Time's looming d?©sastre du jour. Should we "Be worried. Be very worried"? Doubt it, at least not until Time decides there's nothing to worry about anyway.

Update: Thanks to all who wrote, yes, Time has been promoting the concept of looming ice age much more recently than 1974. In fact, January 31, 1994, Michael D. Lemonick bylined "The Ice Age Cometh?" so they would appear to undergo a climate flip at Time on a roughly decadal half-cycle. If we can predict the periodicity of this periodical then new ice age hand-wringing should commence in approximately eight years.

"Time Cover Story Offers No Evidence Of Human-Driven Warming" - "Time devotes its latest cover to the â??near-certaintyâ? that humans are causing dangerous global warming. However, Time offers evidence only of a warming, which could be either man-made or natural. Based on historic and geophysical evidence, Timeâ??s new cover story is likely to be as wrong as its 1974 cover story touting global cooling! Newsweek did one the next year." (Dennis Avery, American Daily)

"Is Time Running Out?" - "Climate Change: If what Time magazine says about global warming is to be believed, you may not have to renew your subscription. Plague, pestilence and Al Gore can't be far behind. In this week's cover story, Time blames everything â?? from "the atmospheric bomb that was Cyclone Larry," which recently struck Australia's northeast coast, to "curtains of fire and dust (that) turned the skies of Indonesia orange," to "sections of ice the size of small states (that) calve from the disintegrating Arctic and Antarctic" â?? on man-made global warming. In fact, the article reads like the script from the apocalyptic movie, "The Day After Tomorrow." "By Any Measure, Earth Is At . . . The Tipping Point," Time says in a scare headline, adding just below: "The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame." For the record, none of these statements is true. But at least Time is not alone in an escalating flurry of apocalyptic prophecies." (IBD)





http://chamberland.blogspot.com/2006/03/mad-science-of-global-warming.html

Or, just go to http://www.junkscience.com/ and start poking around.

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