[theChaparral]

Think the OP misremembered it, It wasn't global cooling in the 80's it was nuclear winter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter

[hinkley]

No there was some global cooling whataboutism going on in the late 70's early 80's, but I didn't hear much about it until the late 90's, when we started talking about the 33 year solar cycle.