It was 46 years ago, almost to the day, that the Washington Post ran a story on how man's behavior was affecting his environment. "In the next 50 years fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun's rays that the Earth's average temperature could fall by six degrees," the Post reported. "Sustained emissions over five to 10 years could be sufficient to trigger an ice age." But long before the shelf life of the Post's prediction began to run out with no Ice Age in sight, the newspaper changed course and decided burning fossil fuel would make the weather hotter, not colder. It makes one wonder--Is the Post trying to deliver serious scientific information? Or does it just view pot shots at the energy industry as a way to sell papers?

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