Chicken Little

So why the “Chicken Little” song about America’s declining might?

"We need to take these glaciers seriously without sounding like Chicken Little," Joughin said in an email.

“We need to take these glaciers seriously without sounding like Chicken Little,” Joughin said in an email.

Wheeler counsels: “Clear heads are needed to separate what is only hypothetical possibility based on worst-case assumptions” — the FAA’s Chicken Little scenario — “from what is highly probable based on real-world use.”

Mr. Levine was viewed by many — even by progressive members of his own party — as a kind of Chicken Little, anticipating and fearing the worst.