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Speaking as someone who was reading high school and college textbooks in the 1970s, forecasts of a coming Ice Age might have warranted a half-page sidebar that brought it up as a possibility.

And for what it's worth, even if a consensus of meteorologists and geographers from 50 years ago had made incorrect predictions of a looming Ice Age (to repeat, that did not happen), it doesn't impeach the credibility of present-day climate science, any more than the errors found in 1960s era timelines of hominid evolution discredit the entire discipline of physical anthropology today.

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