Hawking's Hyperbole Not Helpful

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As much as we despiseย the deceptive comments and PR trickery of the industry-funded automatons bent on denying climate change, we are equally offendedย by muddle-headed environmentalists who skew the conversation through intentional or emotional overstatment.Renowned scientist, Stephen Hawking (who is not generally muddle-headed) said at a recent conference in Beijing that global warming may eventually turnย the earth into a Venus-like planet, baked by 250-degree centigrade temperatures and plagued by Sulphuric acid-rain.

There isn’t a shred of scientific evidence to suggest that this is likely to happen and throwing it out as a threat is counterproductive: it damages the credibility of everyone who is working in good faith to achieve public understanding and practicalย solutions.

It also plays into the hands of those who want toย make the โ€œdebateโ€ about climate change seem ridiculous.ย Look for the likes of the George C. Marshall Institute and Dr. S. Fred Singer to come out swinging on this one, claiming โ€œfear-mongeringโ€ and โ€œextremist left-wingโ€ rhetoric as they continue in their efforts to frame climate change as aย silly conspiracy by the worldโ€™s scientific community.

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