1989: U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked

AP ^ | June 29, 1989 | PETER JAMES SPIELMANN

[Fred Nerks]

Now that's what I call climate change, from freeze to sizzle in less than one generation:

[Oatka]

In 1992, Democratic Senator Tim Worth said:
“We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”

Nothing has changed.

[xp38]

The Russia drop had a lot to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union which still existed in 1990. The industrial output went down as a lot of
inneficient factories producing soviet crap closed. They were not exactly clean and green either.

[SunkenCiv]

Indeed. A cover article on the imminent ice age was also in Popular Mechanics sometime, hmm, circa 1970.