[GOP_Party_Animal]

I definitely remember the "Coming Ice Age" when I was a kid. That memory has been such a useful tool in arguing with the latest WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! crowd.

[Badeye]

Same here. My highschool on the east side of Cincinnati made the local news multiple times back then for its then ‘revolutionary efforts’ at recycling....which allowed the whacko’s running the ‘program’ to speak about Global Cooling being the end of the human race as we know it within a century.

I was one of those rare kids that realized by my sophomore year they were just highschool teachers....

[aroundabout]

Don’t forget that “acid rain will kill all life in our oceans by 1980”. I believe that prophesy was by Ted Dansen, actor.

[Duke Nukum]

I definitely remember the "Coming Ice Age" when I was a kid. That memory has been such a useful tool in arguing with the latest WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! crowd.

Wow, that's my experience exactly.

I so vividly remember seeing a cover of The Weekly Reader in 1st or 2nd grade that showed a drawing of a vast tundra with cities under geodesic domes. The thought of being outside those domes filled me with such panic that the memory is seared, seared, in my mind that when they started sounding off on how we are all going to die from Global Warming(TM) I began to see the pattern of media manipulated panic.