Longer ago than the 80s.
Someone posted yesterday that they were pushing man-made climate effects way back during the wild weather of the mid-1930s. That’s when there were very cold winters followed by very hot, dry summers.
You are correct, but the modern version was the “global warming” scare that was morphed into climate change when the average person realized it was not getting warmer.
This was preceded by the “Coming Ice Age” if mankind does not do something.
Their big victory (and biggest lie) was declaring CO2 as a pollutant. This single and inexplicable court decision by SCOTUS opened the door for them to regulate everything. They can basically regulate all commerce now in the name of saving us from ourselves.
The war on carbon opens the door for them to control just about everything. They are going after “fresh water” also.