"It was a worldwide consensus that was a large topic of conversation on the first Earth Day, and was the primary focus of two UNESCO symposia in 1962 and 1964. Global cooling was "settled science" in those days."

Well we won't get anywhere this time either, but you know I'll try anyway.

No it simply wasn't. There was some discussion of it, and the upward trend was decreasing but there was no world wide scientific consensus that Global Cooling would be the future.