The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively…
Ten months after
Time Magazine's monumental study on "a global climatic upheaval" (whose "effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic"),
Newsweek is finally starting (or: finally started?) to see the light as well, and acting responsibly to direct citizens' concern toward the "advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather" (thanks to Harrison).
The central fact is that after three quarters of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate seems to be cooling down. … Meteorologists … are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century … the resulting famines could be catastrophic … some of the more spectacular solutions proposed [include] melting the arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers…
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