No joke, I was in first grade back in 1990, when this stuff really started taking off. I remember distinctly my teacher telling us, “If you don’t pick up the garbage outside, the light will shine on that garbage and cause the Ozone to get bigger.” I believed that for a lot of years. Until I got old enough to realize, WTF? We also performed a musical on the effects of global warming and pollution, and this was in the early 90’s at public school of course.
I also remembered that in first grade the first Gulf War started, and the teachers tried to explain it to us like, “Saddam is a very bad man with oil. America and George Bush want that oil, so that’s what we are fighting to get over there.”
I believed that until high school, when I had a Republican American studies teacher, who taught us the real reason behind the war. My American Studies class was unique, we had 2 teachers in the class room, one was a Democrat the other a Republican. So we got both sides.
The switch in doctrine from the Earth going into terminal cooling to terminal warming happened as abruptly as the “hockey stick” designed by these so-called scientists.