An Unrepentant Prognosticator

Now that Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth has won an Oscar and global warming has become a household concern, it's easy to forget that just 30 years ago, people were worried about the exact opposite happening. In 1975, Newsweek ran an article entitled "The Cooling World" [PDF] that foretold the decimation of agricultural productivity based on a dramatic decrease in the Earth's temperature.