If the people expecting the world to end when the Mayan calendar does on Dec. 21 are right, then we probably don’t need an energy policy. But NASA has an ironclad case that they’re wrong, and not many people seem to be taking the doomsayers seriously. Just about everyone is doing their holiday shopping as usual.

Perhaps not coincidentally, NASA also has a pretty ironclad case that the world’s climate is changing, but people are going about business as usual there, too.  Yes, there are doubters, but surveys from multiple sources show most Americans seem convinced of the reality of global warming. The COP18 climate conference earlier this month, the latest in a