The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
— L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
This newspaper clipping was making the rounds again:
I’ve mentioned this before but back then I made a mistake: I read it as a warning regarding climate change.
The clipping is taken from page 7 in The Rodney and Otamatea Times, August 14, 1912, but is actually referring to an article in Popular Mechanics which reads somewhat similarly:
Except that global warming is seen as a good thing:
Fairer weather? What’s not to like, right?
It wasn’t a warning as I thought it was.