New Yorker Cover Tries to Revive Climate Alarmists' Fortunes

If celebrities, movies, and former vice presidents can’t sell people on global warming, maybe a cartoon can.

At least that’s what The New Yorker was hoping with its May 17 cover showing the “evolution” of global warming. The cartoon is a montage of every global warming cliché known to the liberal media: car exhaust, factory smoke, rising oceans, polluted water, and the most obvious cause of global warming: cow flatulence.     

Coincidentally, the issue came out on the opening day of the Heartland Institute’s [1]International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago, where gathered scientists and academics denounced climate change alarmists and argued that [2]global cooling is a bigger threat to the planet than global warming. While the Heartland Institute brought together respected experts to discuss climate change, the [3]media ignored the conference. 

The cover was drawn by Dutch artist Joost Warte, who has drawn a number of left-leaning cartoons for The New Yorker, including this anti-capitalism anti-commercialism [4]December 10, 2007 Christmas cover. 

With Climategate and declining public acceptance of man-made global warming, perhaps this was The New Yorker’s way of reintroducing it to readers. Maybe The New Yorker thought it could do what “Wall-E” and “Fern Gully” couldn’t and promote environmentalism through cartoons.