Today’s physics news: green economies to grow, LHC to prove Higgs Boson in two years, starless planets may be habitable after all and more

In today’s news round-up: green economies to grow, LHC to prove Higgs Boson in two years, starless planets may be habitable after all, Brian Cox: ‘I’m not anti-religion. I’m anti-maniac’ , IOP president dies.

Green economies to grow, says UN
Investing $1.3 trillion (£800bn) each year in green sectors would deliver long-term stability and growth in the global economy, a UN report suggests.
BBC

Hadron Collider to prove God Particle theory ‘in two years’
The existence of the so-called “God Particle” Higgs Boson theory could be proved within two years or it probably does not exist, Large Hadron Collider scientists have said.
Telegraph

Brian Cox: ‘I’m not anti-religion. I’m anti-maniac’
Handsome, smiley, softly spoken: no wonder he is the most sought after physicist on the planet. So why does the universe make him swear?
Telegraph 

Marshall Stoneham: 1940–2011
Theoretical physicist and current president of the Institute of Physics has died
Physics World
IOP

Starless planets may be habitable after all
The radioactive decay of elements in a planet’s core could keep it warm enough to maintain liquid water, even if it was no longer orbiting its star
New Scientist