Amazing, the "climate change" from freedom to fascism has been accelerating for a long time now.
The book currently on the top of the stack I read when taking a shit is my 101 level geology textbook circa early 90's. I've been scanning it for content which might help explain how we got to today. Lots of pretty pictures and diagrams and what-not, and (usually in some stand-alone mini-article) there are actually plenty of seeds of climate fearmongering sown in the text, but in a 'kinder, gentler' way than tends to get deployed today.
Interesting to go back to some of that material 25 years on with the evolution of the various programs available for analysis. It makes me again think of a Bertrand Russel quote from his early 50's missive on science and society:
"Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. . . . It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. . . . Bertrand Russell,1953