Thanks for being a jerk to me D. I'll remember that one. By the way...That isn't the cover I was thinking of. There was a story that was predicting an oncoming ICE AGE in either TIME or NEWSWEEK. I was only 17 years old back then and can't remember which. But scientists WERE convinced through years of study that we were heading into an ice age. I don't have time to hunt everything down but here is one article in TIME from the 1970's:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...944914,00.html Here is one of their end of the world quotes:
"Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years.
The earth's current climate is something of an anomaly; in the past 700,000 years, there have been at least seven major episodes of glaciers spreading over much of the planet. Temperatures have been as high as they are now only about 5% of the time. But there is a peril more immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries—the U.S., Canada and Australia —global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: "I don't believe that the world's present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1972 in a row." "
I have no idea why you went on the attack with your picture book comment to me. I was just discussing the subject and then you went all nasty on my ass. Not cool. I was interested in the topic. Not having you insult me.