Your proposal to bribe Cheney into telling us what's going to happen won't work, because he can't predict when influenza A H5N1 is going to mutate into a form that transmits between humans. Since the associated 25% drop in the global population due to an avian influenza pandemic is "the plan" for solving both the energy crisis and the global warming problems, there's a fundamental gap in our ability to predict the specific calendar for the near future.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/outbreaks/current.htm