Sorry, but the media was on the other side of the equation 38 years ago.
Oh they’ve been manufacturing the global warming hoax for at least 100 years with some intermittent ice age scares:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_science
http://blog.heartland.org/2014/03/a-history-of-the-disastrous-global-warming-hoax/