In 1979, global cooling since the 1940’s was indisputable.
Lawrence Journal-World – Google News Archive Search
By 1989, NOAA extended the cooling trend back from 1921 to 1979, and said most warming occurred before 1919.
A year later, Phil Jones reversed NOAA’s cooling trend, and turned it into half a degree warming from 1890 to 1990.
31 Aug 1990, Page 11 – The Age at Newspapers.com
And now Gavin Schmidt at NASA has doubled Phil Jones 1890-1990 trend, and turned it into 1.0C warming.