Publish long enough and you'll be right about half the Time.   The following are some Time magazine clips from past publications.   Try to match the years (1923, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1974, 1977, 1984, 1994, 1997, 2006) with the date of publication for the following and look below for the correct answers:

A) "Those who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right ... no doubt that the world ... is growing warmer."

B) "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."

C) "Temperatures in dozens of cities dropped to all-time lows: -22 degrees F in Pittsburgh; -25 degrees in Akron, Ohio, and Clarksburg, West Virginia; -27 degrees in Indianapolis, Indiana.   Chicago schools closed because of cold weather for the first time in history ... The last (ice age) ended about 10,000 years ago; the next one -- for there will be a next one -- could start tens of thousands of years from now.   Or tens of years.   Or it may have already started."

D) "In Russia the southern limit of permafrost (permanently frozen ground) is receding northward up to 100 yards a year.   Many Norwegian slopes are raising barley where only grass grew before.   Even the fish of the North Atlantic are taking advantage of the change.   The cod, which are very sensitive to temperature changes, have migrated northward some 500 miles"

E) "The consequences could be catastrophic.   A worldwide average temperature drop of only 1 degree Celsius could shorten growing seasons in the temperate zones enough to threaten global food supplies.   Increased heating requirements would further strain energy resources such as coal, natural gas and oil."

F) "From heat waves to storms to floods to fires to massive glacial melts, the global climate seems to be crashing around us.   Scientists have been calling this shot for decades."

G) "For all its (Antartic ice sheet) importance, however, it is on average less than 2 ft. thick, and its stability depends on a precarious balance of factors ranging from air temperature to the salinity and temperature of the water ... Some change in Antarctic climate is already noticeable.   It seems to be snowing more often at the South Pole."

H) "The President saw the glaciers and (saw) ... a large fragment of ice fall from the ice cliff into the river with a great splash."

I) "ecological apocalypse may be at hand ... glaciers do not recover from this type of abuse."

J) "The rustle of spring to a growing horde of enthusiasts is the sound of skis knifing through good corn snow.   Spring skiing is the latest - and many say the greatest - form of snow fun, and it is bringing out a new breed of bum and bunny in Europe and the U.S. ... men, women and children will be schussing their weekends away at least until the Fourth of July (last year the skiing lasted well into August)."

No peaking until you've at least tried!

Answers: A) 1939; B) 1974; C) 1994; D) 1951; E) 1977; F) 2006; G) 1997; H) 1923; I) 1984; J) 1963

My inspiration for this fun little quiz is a speech made yesterday by Senator James Inhofe Chairman, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee entitled Hot & Cold Media Spin: A Challenge To Journalists Who Cover Global Warming which went largely unreported by the media!