Stoned to Death

Psuedo-science hardly at work:

China and the US are the countries most vulnerable to damage from future asteroid impacts, according to preliminary new research. Sweden also ranks surprisingly high in this first attempt at quantifying the risks of impact effects...

Asteroids hate Swedes! Asteroids are nationalists RACISTS!!!

The researchers made this part of their assessment based on estimates of the amount of infrastructure located in different parts of the world.

Using images of the Earth from space showing the distribution of light from artificial sources, they assumed the brighter places were more built up. Then they simulated the propagation of tsunamis, earthquakes and debris from a wide variety of impact locations to rank countries on the vulnerability of their infrastructure.

In statistics, the words which I have highlighted in the preceding two paragraphs are referred to as unquantifiable compounding variables. The level of uncertainty they jointly create renders this entire "study" nothing more than a politically-motivated TinkerToy construct, threatening to tumble to the ground at the least brush with the scientific method.

But I suppose all the global warming proponents have to find something to do with their computer modeling time, now that their pet doom is dying on the vine. Giant Space Rocks of Death appear to be their first choice among the various alternative cataclysms.