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Stephen Hawking: One Thing Threatens Us More Than Donald Trump ... Climate Change
01 June 16
strophysicist Stephen Hawking has often been consulted in matters unrelated to space and many consider him among the most intelligent individuals to have lived. Which is why during an interview on Tuesday, Hawking’s assertion that there was something more dire facing America and the world than Donald Trump, people sat up and took notice.
Hawking was asked if he could explain the rise of Trump, to which the man replied, “I can’t. He is a demagogue, who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator.”
“A more immediate danger is runaway climate change,” Hawking said.
“A rise in ocean temperature would melt the ice-caps and cause a release of large amounts of carbon dioxide from the ocean floor. Both effects could make our climate like that of Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees.”
In a ThinkProgress article about the interview, it was noted that most mainstream and corporate media ignored the second half of Hawking’s statement. Nevertheless, just like Sen. Bernie Sanders’ comments saying that climate change is more dangerous to the U.S. than ISIS, Hawking’s comments show the true enemy is ourselves.
Stephen Hawking was asked to explain the phenomenon of Trump, couldn’t
Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most brilliant physicists, has spent his life elucidating the workings of space and time.
But asked to explain the phenomenon of Donald Trump, he was stumped. “I can’t,” was Hawking’s response when he was asked to do so by ITV News on Tuesday morning (May 31).
“He is a demagogue, who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator,” said Hawking, who directs research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge, UK.
But asked what was the greatest threat to the world right now, Hawking didn’t mention the US presidential hopeful or any of the security concerns that typically preoccupy him. Hawking said climate change would be more catastrophic than any single factor other than an asteroid collision, the last of which happened 70 million years ago, and killed the dinosaurs, he said.
The Media Is Ignoring The Most Important Part Of Stephen Hawking’s Comments On Trump
BY EMILY ATKIN MAY 31, 2016
CREDIT: AP PHOTO/ELIZABETH DALZIEL-FILE
In this June 19, 2006 file photo Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking speaks
at an international gathering of scientists on the origins of the
universe at Beijing's Great Hall of the People in China.
A lot of people consider astrophysicist Stephen Hawking to be the smartest man in the world. His research and theories have explained some of the deepest mysteries of time and space.
So it’s understandable why, on Tuesday, people sort of freaked out when Hawking said there was one thing he could not explain: The popularity of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
“I can’t,” Hawking responded, when asked to explain Trump’s rise as part of an exclusive interviewwith British news station ITV News. “He is a demagogue, who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator.”
But here’s the thing: in that same interview, Hawking also said he didn’t believe Trump was the greatest threat facing America, or even the world. The greatest threat, he said, is human-caused climate change.
“A more immediate danger is runaway climate change,” Hawking said. “A rise in ocean temperature would melt the ice-caps, and cause a release of large amounts of carbon dioxide from the ocean floor. Both effects could make our climate like that of Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees.”
Hawking’s comments about Trump made headlines in nearly every major American media outlet. His comments about climate change being the world’s greatest threat, however, did not make the cut.
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Hawking has been warning about the long-term dangers of climate change for years. In 2007,Hawking spoke of scientists’ duty to “alert the public to the unnecessary risks that we live with every day, and to the perils we foresee if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change.”
“There’s a realization that we are changing our climate for the worse. That would have catastrophic effects,” Hawking said. “Although the threat is not as dire as that of nuclear weapons right now, in the long term we are looking at a serious threat.”
Since then, Hawking has continued to speak about his concerns about the impacts of climate change, which climate scientists say will include sea-level rise, more extreme weather, food shortages, and increased violent conflicts.
Trump, on the other hand, has said he does not believe climate change exists. Last week, he promised to undo essentially every major climate policy developed in the last decade if elected president.
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