[ealgeone]

At the 13:59 mark in the episode a professor says we can predict with confidence "we are currently heading toward another ice age."

He [Dr James Haze] was basing that on core samples collected and studied at Columbia University.

[Dr. Pritchett]

I can remember looking at a Time or Newsweek in the 70’s with a big Impending Ice Age story when I was a kid. Everyone treated it as a foregone conclusion. I remember asking my parents about it.

Then later they switched to Global Warming, and then generic man-made Climate Change.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and thus clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”—H.L. Mencken