This is third hand with absolutely no evidence to back it up, but it's kinda funny. Anyway, the deal is that the New York Times had some story where they basically made fun of scientists from the early 80's who had been warning that the planet would be completely deforested within 20 years. This was a widely held theory in which people who disagreed were blasted. Much like the global warming theories. I'm not saying global warming is wrong, but just that it's funny that the New York Times can bash theories from 20 years ago which they were completely behind at the time, and then completely support similarly unproven theories today. Maybe the deforestation thing should have taught them to be a little more skeptical when scientists say something will be some way years in the future.