Ipsa scientia potestas est

Apparently in the late 70s and early 80s, a scare was racing across America, GLOBAL COOLING.
A snippit from wikipedia:

In the 1970s, there was increasing awareness that estimates of global temperatures showed cooling since 1945. Of those scientific papers considering climate trends over the next century, slightly under 10% inclined towards future cooling, while most papers predicted future warming. The general public had little awareness of carbon dioxide’s effects on climate, although Paul R. Ehrlich mentions climate change from the greenhouse gases in 1968. By the time the idea of global cooling reached the public press in the mid-1970s, the temperature trend had stopped going down, and there was concern in the climatological community about carbon dioxide’s effects. It was known that both natural and man-made effects caused variations in global climate.

Take a look at this cover of a very well respected magazine, “Time.”  Clearly this was a serious issue, enough of one to make the cover.

Somehow in the last 28 years, the focus has shifted.  Now we’re so concerned about warming of the planet that corporations are spending billions of dollars in claims to “put an end to global warming”.  Really what are these corporations trying to do?  I believe they’re trying to get on the band-wagon and recieve consumer backing.  Get people to buy your products simply by going along with the crowd, claiming that the sky is falling.

Is the sky falling?  ~30 years ago it was falling.  Looks like its falling again.