From the March 26, 2006, edition of Time Magazine:

Disasters have always been with us and surely always will be. But when they hit this hard and come this fast--when the emergency becomes commonplace--something has gone grievously wrong. That something is global warming.

Scientists have been calling this shot for decades. This is precisely what they have been warning would happen if we continued pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping the heat that flows in from the sun and raising global temperatures.

Environmentalists and lawmakers spent years shouting at one another about whether the grim forecasts were true, but in the past five years or so, the serious debate has quietly ended. Global warming, even most skeptics have concluded, is the real deal, and human activity has been causing it. If there was any consolation, it was that the glacial pace of nature would give us decades or even centuries to sort out the problem.

"There will be no polar ice by 2060," says Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation.

Ocean waters have warmed by a full degree Fahrenheit since 1970,

Compare this with the June 24, 1974, edition of the same magazine:

As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F.

the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since

Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.

So you'll have to excuse me if I don't buy into "global warming." Considering that just 30 years ago the "experts" were sounding the alarm of a coming ice age, caused by the same things (emissions, etc.), I think I'll just ride it out rather than get into an uproar about it.

Methinks the emperor has no clothes. ;-)