I'm afraid when the end of the world finally comes, there's going to be a ton of people who will be upset it didn't happen the way they wanted it to. I remembe

I'm afraid when the end of the world finally comes, there's going to be a ton of people who will be upset it didn't happen the way they wanted it to. I remember reading Bob Novak in the mid 2000s. Every week he'd predict that whatever the current news was, the United States would be pulling out of Iraq. Finally I emailed him. "Bob! Keep it up! Sooner or later you're bound to be right" He's not right yet, but my point holds. At some point, something really bad is going to happen that scientists have been predicting. Bound to happen. But once that happens, there will be a hundred other things that didn't make the cut. The precautionary principle is great, but not when you have dozens or hundreds of things all of which with potentially catastrophic consequences. Then it's all just so much noise.