"There are archives of scientific publications, not just newspapers. This backs up what the scientists are saying and not what the newspapers are saying"OK, let's check. Here are just a handful of scientific papers from the 60s and 70s talking about global cooling that I pulled off Google Scholar in five minutes. By the way, notice how every single one treats the existence of a long term cooling trend as unarguable, undisputed fact and then observe that modern climatologists present long term temperature data that simply erases the trend all these older scientists were talking about: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
Mitchell (debated elsewhere in this thread):
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/apme/10/4/1520-04...
"Suggestions by several previous authors to the effect that the apparent worldwide cooling of climate in recent decades is attributable to large-scale increases of particulate pollution of the atmosphere by human activities are not supported by this analysis"
Mitchell again: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-010-1729-9_...
"It is concluded that the cooling of climate since 1940, apparently still in progress, is a natural phenomenon plausibly related to an enhanced stratospheric loading by volcanic dust in the period"
Science, 1975: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.188.4188.535
"The regions that would be most severely affected by a continuation of the cooling trend to the year 2000 would be the higher latitudes (above 50 degrees) where spring wheat is grown and the warm band below 30 degrees latitude where rice is the principal grain crop."
Another Science paper, 1975: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.189.4201.460
"If man-made dust is unimportant as a major cause of climatic change, then a strong case can be made that the present cooling trend will, within a decade or so, give way to a pronounced warming induced by carbon dioxide. By analogy with similar events in the past, the natural climatic cooling which, since 1940, has more than compensated for the carbon dioxide effect, will soon bottom out."
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1972: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1974...
"The mean temperature for the Northern Hemisphere had a warming trend from 1890 to 1950 and a cooling trend since 1950. The eastern and central United States had colder temperatures in 1961–1970 than in 1931–1960"
Science and Public Policy, 1975: https://academic.oup.com/spp/article-abstract/2/6/264/163373...
"There is mounting evidence that the bad climate of 1972 may be the forerunner of a long series of less favourable agricultural crop years that lie ahead for most of the world. Thus widespread food shortages threaten just at the same time that populations are growing to new highs. Indeed, less favourable climate may be the new global norm. The Earth may have entered a new ‘little ice age’."