British professor fears global warming will cause temperatures to skyrocket beyond boiling point and sulphuric acid to rain from the sky
STEPHEN Hawking fears Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate change agreement could be the “tipping point” which wipes out humanity and turns our planet into a living hell.
The British professor is worried that The Donald’s rejection of this plan to combat global warming could cause irreversible changes which doom our planet to a grim fate.
In recent years, Hawking has become something of a doom-monger who is determined to sketch out a variety of grim fates which await the human race.
In his latest prophecy, the professor suggested our planet could be destined to become totally uninhabitable.
“We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid,” he told the BBC.
“Climate change is one of the great dangers we face, and it’s one we can prevent if we act now.
“By denying the evidence for climate change, and pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Donald Trump will cause avoidable environmental damage to our beautiful planet, endangering the natural world, for us and our children.”
The famed physicist and doom monger also fears that “evolution has inbuilt greed and aggression to the human genome”, meaning that we might wipe ourselves out before Earth turns into Venus.
He added: “There is no sign of conflict lessening, and the development of militarised technology and weapons of mass destruction could make that disastrous. The best hope for the survival of the human race might be independent colonies in space.”
Professor Hawking fears technology will wipe out humanity and has called for global government to defeat killer robots.
He has also said humanity should probably leave Earth within 1,000 years, although even this great escape might not save us because an alien civilisation could come along and wipe us out.
No future for you….
#1: Pinguinite To: cranky (#0)
We're all going to DIE, DIE, DIE!
I like Hawking. He has made good contributions to science, however, I suspect his doom and gloom bias is perhaps a psychological induced by his unfortunate physical condition. Someone in such extremely limited physical ability for nearly his entire life doubtless has to struggle with a constant "why me?" type lament (until they reach a point of asking instead, "why not me?" which a guy in a wheelchair I knew did, in fact, reach), and might subconsciously desire some terrible fate to befall the rest of mankind just so he doesn't have to feel like he was alone in experiencing some tragedy.
Pinguinite posted on 2017-07-03 14:52:55 Reply Private Reply
#2: cranky To: Pinguinite (#1)
My reaction exactly.
Except i would add: 'minorities and women hit hardest'.
cranky posted on 2017-07-03 15:44:19 Reply Private Reply
#3: paraclete To: cranky (#0)
and I used to think once Venus would be a nice place to live, but reality took over and it is time reality took over for Hawking. It is very unlikely we will find any place we could go and have the technology to do it in a reasonable time frame. There is no new world just over the horizon. The Earth is a very unique planet and while other planets in other star systems might exist, the task of colonising them is far beyond our capability.
If this man is so brilliant he should devote his mind to solving some of the problems we have on the Earth and not to science fiction
paraclete posted on 2017-07-03 19:24:08 Reply Private Reply
#4: Stoner To: cranky (#0)
But on this, he is FOS !
Stoner posted on 2017-07-05 08:39:44 Reply Private Reply