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Gary Yohe's recent editorial highlights an irony that has persisted within the Bush Administration since it adopted the precautionary principle in its dealing with terrorism and gave birth to the policy of preemptive warfare - in the war on terror, any shred of evidence of nefarious deeds must be treated as certainty, yet in the (yet to get started) war on climate change, evidence is dismissed, even when associated with high degrees of likelihood or confidence. Needless to say, this duality of high risk aversion on one hand while risk seeking on the other is a bit inconsistent.