Wednesday, April 11, 2007

The Boogeyman in 1975!

With all the controversy surrounding Global Warming these days, it's hard to know what to believe. Is the earth heating up? Yes. Is it caused by man? I don't know. Is it part of a normal warming cycle? I don't know. The most honest answer in the debate is "I don't know" or "Maybe".

We don't know enough about what causes climate change or how the earth reacts to the influence of "Man" but I'm sure we'll spend billions of dollars to find out and there will be many corporations and individuals that will profit handsomely from the study.

The debate is nothing new. We've been down this road before. Here's a great article from the April 28, 1975 issue of Newsweek Magazine: