actually the coming ice age predicted in the 70s was very much considered pollution caused but never got the political grease it now has as a tool of envirowackos and as a segue for more socialist control and a transfer of wealth from the developed to third worlds:
From Time 1975:
Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.
Interesting... I just don’t recall any of that, from what I saw, but something like that, if it wasn’t a big deal could get past me... :-)
However, at the same time, you’ll also hear Lord Monckton say in his own video (that he produced and sells) that there is a negligible connection of mankind and some CO2 that it puts into the atmosphere, thereby making a very slight difference (but nothing of consequence he says).
So, perhaps that’s what they were saying back then, even though I never heard it... :-)
You’re right in that there was no big political push or big deal to gain control over the world on the basis of something like that. Of course, that would have never gotten off the ground at all, in that day and age...
Very true. They blamed it on pollution. They also blamed the droughts, famines and floods on the decline in temps. To their credit...they also attributed the increase in the number of tornadoes to global cooling. That part does make sense since you cool the poles quicker than the equator...which sets up a bigger temp diff b/w the two...and this means a faster jet stream and more violent weather.
But...basically everything that was happening in the 60's and 70's they attributed to global cooling. Same stuff still happening...only its global warming doing it (except we have less hurricanes and tornadoes globally).