01-01-2008, 12:36 AM

1) Newsweek is not a peer-reviewed journal.
2) In the 33 years since the publication of this article more data has become available and better models for climate change have been developed.
3) Note that that the overall trend of the chart is warming (the smooth negative slope at the RHS occurs in an interval which is shorter than the time between the publication of that article and this post), and that the areas alleged to be affected by this cooling trend are NOT THE WHOLE FSKING PLANET!
Link to PDF of the Infamous Newsweek Article
A contemporary National Geographic Article
A survey of peer-reviewed literature from the period
edit -- fixed a typo