Scientist calls for huge sums of money to be pissed away

Here. Great timing, mate. As the world plunges into recession, or even depression, he wants enormous sums of money spent countering a threat whose risk is infinitessimal and which probably couldn't be stopped anyway. These things travel at colossal speed, by the time we know it is heading for earth it will probably be too late anyway. Asteroid strikes make global warming look like a cast-iron certainty.

Still, it isn't exactly odd for the UN to want to grab even more cash to spend on 'global' action on spurious 'global crises'.