In 1977, the worst winter in a century struck the United States.

Arctic cold gripped the Midwest for weeks on end.

Great blizzards paralyzed cities of the northeast.

One desperate night in Buffalo, eight people froze to death in marooned cars.

Pat Bushnell was on the road that night.

Traffic just absolutely stopped. I was afraid of being stuck in the car all night long

with the cold and the wind running out of gas and then what?

I think that if we had to go through a real bad winter, just like we just went through,

I think we'd have to think about moving someplace else.

Move where?

The brutal Buffalo winter might become common all over the United States.

Climate experts believe the next Ice Age is on its way.

According to recent evidence, it could come sooner than anyone had expected.

Ah yes, Leonard Nimoy, and in search of the coming Ice Age, that was before I was born.

As I was growing up, it was this guy.

Some of the models suggest to Dr. Maslowski that there is a 75% chance that the entire North Polar Ice Cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice free within the next five to seven years. Yeah, that was Al Gore

15 years ago saying our planet is going to be a burning ball of fire in the next five years.

Well, bears drown, drown as the seas get higher as it burns, burns, burns. The earth on fire, a ball of fire.

One of the best Paul Shanklin bits ever.

If you do a pretty simple Google Trends search,

sometime around the mid-2010s, something changed.

It was no longer global warming.

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