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Invoke 1% doctrine

February 19, 2010

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IN CONFRONTING terrorism, former vice president Dick Cheney formulated the so-called 1 percent doctrine, which argued that when it came to terrorism, the country needed to treat low-probability intelligence as actionable where the potential impact of the intelligence being true was high. Applying this reasoning to global warming - where the probability of a worldwide catastrophic event is much higher ... (Full article: 75 words)

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