evidence: The meme’s overarching claim about "experts" warning of a "global cooling in 1977" also isn’t new. We addressed a similar claim advanced by Trump last year, and by Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz before him. [...] Moreover, the notion of global cooling was not widely accepted among climate scientists — as global warming is today. (NASA notes that studies show that "97 percent or more" of active climate scientists believe human-caused warming is occurring.) [...] Peterson, Thomas C., et. al. "The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1 Sep 2008.