I was in middle school and high school during
the "ice age scare" years. There was a full-blown propaganda push to get
people to reduce energy use, increase government power, and generally
have people turn their lives around in the name of saving
the environment or we would all end up under a 20' sheet of ice. In
other words, it was the same rhetoric we hear now in the name of saving
us from 'global warming', which was then modified to 'global climate
change' when the earth failed to actually warm. Check out this flashback that
shows the propaganda retread from Real Science -