So I came upon a Life Magazine issue dating back to September, 1980. The title was 'The Cruel Summer' about the famous heat wave and subsequent devastating drought during that year - the worst it had been since 1954. Dallas in particular suffered 42 straight days of 100 degree temperatures.
Here are a couple of excerpts from the short piece:
"Highways buckled. Vast fields of wheat, corn and soybeans whithered and chicken died by the millions in in ovenlike coops..." And "Streets fell silent in the big cities as people imprisoned themselves in cooled offices and homes, reports of child abuse increased as parents fell prey to cabin fever."
As a point of interest, there was no mention of global warming.
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