About That Faked Time Cover
More climate denialism media malfeasance from the Daily Mail Fail.
In the Great Green Con, as with all Mail articles, much of the real creativity has gone into the sidebar, in this case a little bundle of joy entitled: “1977 - the year we were told to fear terror of… global cooling”.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Fear terror? Wasn’t that Franklin Delano Roosevelt?” No, that was “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. This is a very different FDR. The DR stands for David Rose, and the F doesn’t stand for Franklin.
The first line of the sidebar reads:
In the Seventies, scientists and policymakers were just as concerned about a looming ‘ice age’ as they have been lately about global warming - as the Time magazine cover pictured here illustrates.
And here’s the Time magazine cover pictured, illustrating away in the middle of the Mail on Sunday:
…And here’s a close up of that Time magazine cover, note the date in the top right-hand corner, April 1977:
And here’s Time Magazine’s website where you can search through all of their covers, here showing all four editions from April 1977.
You see any penguins? Me neither. This is most p-p-p-peculiar.
More: Dear Mail on Sunday, Time Is Not on Your Side
and the real cover, from 2007: