[JimRed]

FWIW, I remember from my days back in school in the 60’s our history books having PICTURES of the flat earth with waters falling off the edge and with (iirc) some kind of dragons or something off the edge waiting to further doom those who went off the edge of the earth.

Yes, but that was to teach you what the low-info population believed at a time in the past. It was not meant to infer that it was a correct belief. But the "new ice age" was, and the warming crap is, being taught as fact.

[xzins]

Correct, it was shown as an example of what some believed in Columbus’ time.