The "new ice age" thing was never anywhere close to a mainstream thing in climate science. The idea that CO2 caused warming was already well-established, and th

The "new ice age" thing was never anywhere close to a mainstream thing in climate science. The idea that CO2 caused warming was already well-established, and the decade-scale cooling was correctly seen as just a temporary reversion. A lot of that coverage was astroturfed by Exxon et al, precisely to muddy the waters. The media of course was happy to play along.