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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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
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