Newsweek is absolutely right to point out that just because it was spectacularly wrong about global cooling three decades ago does not mean scientists are now wrong about global warming. A lospided scientific consensus holds that the rise in global temperatures since the middle of the past century has at least some anthropogenic (i.e., man-made) impetus. Newsweek’s past embarrassment doesn’t change the current facts on the ground.

Nevertheless, there’s just no graceful way for the magazine to argue, as it now does, that having its own past environmental alarmism debunked only proves how much more intently people should heed its alarmism now.

Spoken like a true contortionist. Let’s see how well you can write that underwater.

Is it alarmist to let people know that some models show Hamtpon Roads drowned by a rising sea level?

Put that into your transportation budget debate and smoke it.

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