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Maybe some of you internet whizbangs can dig up news telecasts from the 70’s telling us the planet was going to be a ball of ice by now.

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In the 1970s, it was supposed to be a ball of superhot plasma by now.

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'Peak oil' and 'Acid rain' was the catch cry i remember as a kid from the 70's.

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Yep, no oil by 1999.

Acid rain was solved by the addition of expensive, but effective scrubbing systems to fossil generators. Science saves the day.

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My school was teaching global cooling.

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We were getting pearl-clutching ice caps melting because it was so hot.