For those of you who weren't around in the '50's, the big thing then was the coming of the next Ice Age.
Some in the scientific community proclaimed that in a very short period of time that ice would spread almost to the Ohio river. Most people with enough common sense to come in out of the rain dismissed this theory as pure folly and it lived a short life. Unfortunately this time around we have a so called distinguished Pied Piper and a lot of people that don't have enough common sense to come in out of the rain.