The book was published in 1982!
Like the guys who said they had discovered nuclear fusion and were disgraced, these things come out.
No scientific body of national or international standing maintains a formal opinion dissenting from any of these main points. The last national or international scientific body to drop dissent was the American Association of Petroleum Geologists,[10] which in 2007[11] updated its statement to its current non-committal position.[12] Some other organizations, primarily those focusing on geology, also hold non-committal positions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
