Worse than Global Warming

The things people say when they're trying to sound smart (not that I ever fall into that trap).

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/02/1180976.aspx
"You know, 5 billion years from now, the sun is going to blow up. There is nothing we can do about that. This will be worse than global warming."

I suppose that would be worse than global warming, or at least it would be global warming to the extreme.