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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Climate Change /"The Cooling World" Cover story: "the Last Battle" in Newsweek, 28 April 1975. 87pp. Full weekly issue. GOOD condition, with a remnant of shipping label on front cover. 64Pp, 2 charts. pointed to "ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change" and pointed to "a drop of half a degree [Fahrenheit] in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968."   On April 28, 1975, Newsweek published a provocative article, "The Cooling World," in which writer and science editor Peter Gwynne described a significant chilling of the world's climate, with evidence accumulating "so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it." He raised the possibility of shorter growing seasons and poor crop yields, famine, and shipping lanes blocked by ice, perhaps to begin as soon as the mid-1980s. Meteorologists, he wrote, were "almost unanimous" in the opinion that our planet was getting colder. Over the years that followed, Gwynne's article became one of the most-cited stories in Newsweek's history. Jack El-Hail, Llongreads, "In 1975, Newsweek Predicted A New Ice Age. We're Still Living with the Consequences."+++Just a note that two days later the US Embassy was breahed and captured marking the end of the Vietnam War.