THE MORNING LINE ‣ From the NY Times, December 21, 1969: "Scientists have warned the human race that it is running the risk of allowing pollution to destroy life in the oceans and to alter the earth's climate by raising temperatures…J. O. Fletcher, a physical scientist for the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif., said that man had 'only a few decades to solve the problem' of global warming caused by pollution. Global warming could cause further melting of the polar ice caps and affect the earth's climate."