Then, after a short period when the world appeared to be warming again, the March 1, 1975 cover of ScienceNewsmagazine depicted New York City being swallowed by a glacier.
Then, last autumn, ScienceNews, a Chinese-language magazine of which Fang Xuanchang was then executive editor, devoted two issues to articles questioning the safety and efficacy of the Xiao procedure using as a source Fang Shimin's lawyer Peng Jian, a man with no scientific or medical background.