Sitcoms in the 1950's were, by today's standard, very stereotypical. There was no focus on minorities or family issues that were taboo at the time. They portrayed normal white middle-class families with a houswife, two children, and a hard working father. Think of Leave It To Beaver or I Love Lucy type shows.
Today, we know that the climate history over the last 10.000 years has been drastically changing. One particularly important aspect on what had happened was the fact that the glaciers and ice caps melted - a.
This has been happening over the thousands of years and has been increasingly noticeable in the last couple of decades.