In the seventies, after a thirty year period of global cooling, environmental activists began sounding the alarm. The claim was that air pollution would bring about a new ice age. When temperatures began trending upward the same activists began to claim that global warming was the boogeyman and the cause was air pollution. That these models have consistently failed to predict past climate changes without manual intervention has only lead to calls for more research funding. And there's the rub.
Funding is controlled by politicians.
While updating regularly the Ass bills itself as a 'Monthly Review' allowing the editors time to refine feature stories and columns. My favorite feature is '25 Questions with n Webmasters'. The newest addition to the Ass is the City eYe project. S0A hopes to bring together correspondents from the worlds major cities to report on current cultural events where they live. Detroit is a glaring omission.