30 years ago? It has happened more recently than that. I has also been going on for hundreds of years. Religious nuts are always talking about the return of their God, and how he/she will wipe out the earth. Science nuts and their predictions of solar flares, ice ages, global warming (by their initial predictions the earth would be one big desert by now), and the like. If it ends, it ends, what can you do about it? Human arrogance brings a lot of people to think the world will end while they are on it. I guess they think there is not any way the world could go on without them.
although, if we did not all die (of course that means it is not the end) I would go all Red Dawn.
This isn't the first time in history (even the short recorded history of weather)that the weather has been f'ed up either. The weather has been more extreme on both ends of the spectrum, and we are all still here.