Why doesn't the prospects of earth being hit by an asteroid get near as much funding as AGW.?

Question

The CO2 theory is not proven. An asteroid striking the earth is. Where's the money for research?

Answer 1

There is no money in it.

Answer 2

2 ITEMS= ONE WHAT INCOMING OUT IN SPACE IS ON A COLLISION COURSE IN DEEP SPACE AND ALL NON-SOLIDS DECIPATE AT 500 FEET HIGH

Answer 3

becauuse they hope it does hit the earth ,if the plan is right it will hit the middle east or china and take care of the problems we now face

Answer 4

I don't know what to do. At the current rate of global warming, I'll have to move north 2 blocks every hundred years just to keep up.

Answer 5

Because if we're going to get nailed by an asteroid there's nothing we can do about it.  But global warming...well now, all we have to do to solve it is to send our dollars to Al Gore or his evil henchmen!

Answer 6

You are misinformed.  The concept of greenhouse gases (e.g. CO2) warming the planet is as well established in science as any other theory. How much it will warm, given our current emission rate is still uncertain, but there is high confidence among climate scientists that it will be in the range of 1.7 - 4 C by the end of the century.

The amount of funding for asteroid detection and avoidance is equivalent to the amount of concern people smarter than you or I have about that danger.

Answer 7

The prediction of being hit on May,5th, 2005 never happen. But it is a physical probability, I think they have a five man team working on the next prediction (2013), if I'm not mistaken. Yeah I get your point.

Answer 8

Because there is no way for the AGW fanatics to blame the human race for the asteroid.

although if an asteroid were to hit the planet, I am fairly certain the AGW loonies would blame it on global warming.

Answer 9

Because the threat of global warming is upon us, while the probability of an asteroid hitting us is quite small. People definitely do worry about such things and get money for research, though. The probability of one of significant size hitting the Earth in a given year is less than 0.1%, while the probability of global warming negatively affecting Earth is something like 95%.