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Green Energy Doomsayers
Washington Post ^ | 02/15/2009 | GEorge Will

Posted on 02/15/2009 7:16:48 PM PST by fiscon1

A corollary of Murphy's Law ("If something can go wrong, it will") is: "Things are worse than they can possibly be." Energy Secretary Steven Chu, an atomic physicist, seems to embrace that corollary but ignores Gregg Easterbrook's "Law of Doomsaying": Predict catastrophe no sooner than five years hence but no later than 10 years away, soon enough to terrify but distant enough that people will forget if you are wrong.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: culture; energy

1 posted on 02/15/2009 7:16:49 PM PST by fiscon1
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Former astronaut speaks out on global warming
(Harrison Schmitt: scare over it is a political tool)
KOB.com | 2/15/09 | AP
Posted on 02/15/2009 5:18:19 PM PST by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2186429/posts


2 posted on 02/15/2009 7:48:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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"Chu Have No Clue"

3 posted on 02/15/2009 7:56:38 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Hope + Change = PORKULU$)
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