When I was a kid it was global cooling..
Ain’t it great to be young again?
It was global cooling until the Brits figured out that, if it was global warming, they would not have to pay the coal miners more money ... and the rest is history.
We must be about the same age. I did a paper in high school about global cooling and the Maunder cycle. In grade school I was taught that CO2 was a necessity for all forms of life and Carbon is a basic/needed element for life on earth. Amazing what Ursuline nuns taught in a 4 room Church basement in Kentucky, but I digress since we were farm kids.
The climate, through empirical evidence, had continually changed throughout the epochs of time. If one wants to find the driver of climate change (ice ages to warming periods) one should pay attention to what has shown its own changes which correlate to those of the earth’s climate, the sun.
I was in High School during the winter of 1976. That was the coldest damned winter I can remember. The Delaware River froze over completely for the first time since the 18th century. The surf at Sea Isle City NJ was completely frozen. We had two weeks where the temp never got above 0. That's when Time Magazine proclaimed we were in a new Ice Age...or entering one. Whatever.
Why do I mention that? 1976 is the winter that Joe Bastardi is saying this coming winter will resemble. I need to buy some extra blankets.
I was in 2nd grade the year it switched over. One month, we were shown a documentary that said we were entering an ice age, there would be famine and disease, and everyone would die. About 2 months later, we were shown a documentary that said we were entering a period of uncontrolled warming, there would be famine and disease, and everyone would die.
I got put on the “bad kids” list for asking about the discrepancy.