Energy secretary once again promotes the greatest scientific fraud in history

"Being very bold and shooting for the moon is something we want to encourage," Chu said, adding that such a strategy could help us deal with the world's looming problems.

One of those problems, he said in his speech, is that computer models indicate that rising global temperatures and other climate problems could lead to a much more arid and desert-like Western United States.

"The economic consequences would be staggering," Chu said.

LANL has the most intricate ocean and climate computer model ever made, and continued evolution of that on supercomputers throughout the complex could help scientists better understand how to stop climate problems from becoming drastic, he said.

As far as climate change science evolving in the real world, "we can only do one experiment -- the one we're doing now," he said, adding with a laugh that if it goes awry, "that would be bad." Chu, who visited LANL on Thursday, compared public knowledge and a willingness to address climate change issues to being on the Titanic looking for icebergs.

"If we turn now, and work hard, we can get a glancing blow," Chu said of climate change impacts, adding that if nothing is done, the blow will be much worse.