FROM THE MAN WHO HELPED BRING YOU THE ECO-PARANOIA THAT DEFINED THE EARLY 1970s: Quite a coup for Mark Steyn — Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, discovers Mark Steyn has a new book out questioning Michael Mann’s increasingly limp hockey stick and does not like what he reads.

Considering that much of what Ehrlich helped inspire in the early 1970s now sounds like Reefer Madness with bell-bottoms and long sideburns, that’s quite a glowing “reverse endorsement” indeed for Mark:

(Here’s the YouTube link if you’d like to watch the complete version of Matt Novak’s 2010 Paleofuture video, which nicely sums up the doomsday zaniness of the 1970s.)