Media Blog reader Gabriel writes in to point out this article from The Times of India:

Then last Christmas, I went on vacation to Lake Argentina. The Upsala glacier and six other glaciers descend from the South Andean icefield into the lake. I was astounded to discover that while the Upsala glacier had retreated rapidly, the other glaciers showed little movement, and one had advanced across the lake into the Magellan peninsula. If in the same area some glaciers advance and others retreat, the cause is clearly not global warming but local micro-conditions.
Yet the Greenpeace photos gave the impression that glaciers in general were in rapid retreat. It was a con job, a dishonest effort to mislead. From the same icefield, another major glacier spilling into Chile has grown 60% in volume.

More from the same article:

A recent Washington Post article gave this scientist’s quote from 1972. “We simply cannot afford to gamble. We cannot risk inaction. The scientists who disagree are acting irresponsibly. The indications that our climate can soon change for the worse are too strong to be reasonably ignored.” The warning was not about global warming (which was not happening): it was about global cooling!

I’m not a scientist, and I haven’t vacationed to the Upsala glacier yet, but I do have Google. After spending a very short time searching, I found this report. It talks about the glacier retreat in Patagonia, but in the conclusion says this:

It cannot yet be assessed if the ice retreat in Patagonia and on the LIS indicates just regional changes of the atmospheric circulation patterns or can be assigned to global climatic change.

In conjuction with a 34-page screed on the inevitable and disastrous effects of global warming, the uncritical presentation of this picture of the Upsala glacier adds weight to the argument that Time did not do a thorough job presenting all the evidence.