Global warming deniers- are you smarter than this guy?

Question

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-06-22-hawking-warming_x.htm

or is he simply part of the global scientific conspiracy?

I'm sure hawking knows nothing about the 2 main reasons deniers give for global warming:

solar output and orbital cycles

Answer 1

global warming is real but half the time when ppl talk about it they over exaggerate like gore in an inconvenient truth how he uses the line graph how he spreads the numbers out and use it to gain political ground but if something isn't done soon we could be regretting not changing sooner. we can all help by turning lights off looking for other energy sources and car pooling.

Answer 2

Yes

EnragedParrit
I don't know if anyone =alive today= is smarter than this guy, least of all GW contrarians. I'm lolling over the people in this thread who've answered "yes".

It's a shame you suffer such a lack of self esteem . EP
He's just a theoretical physicist , currently trying to recover some respectability in the field from his last miscalculation with a new improved theory.

Naw Bob, Harry does have a point if everybody had said "oh well he's Einstein hes the Smartest man on earth we just need to pack up this quantum foolishness and go home". ???

Answer 3

Wow. I mean, just wow. The sheer ego of people to actually say 'yes, I'm smarter than Stephen Hawking'. It just blows my mind.

Oh he's not an expert on global warming so therefore you know more about it than him? Hah! Physics is a fundamental science, and it's fundamental to climatology. In fact, quite possibly the foremost climate scientist in the world right now is NASA's James Hansen:

"Hansen was trained in physics and astronomy in the space science program of Dr. James Van Allen at the University of Iowa. He obtained a B.A. in Physics and Mathematics with highest distinction in 1963, an M.S. in Astronomy in 1965 and a Ph.D. in Physics, in 1967"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen

None of you has any idea to what extent Hawking has studied the science of climate change. The ego to claim you're smarter than him or know more about global warming than Hawking ist just incredible.

As to the claim that he's been wrong before, I suppose you've never made a mistake in your life? Give me a break. Everyone's been wrong before, even in the subject about which they're expert. That doesn't make you any less of an expert or any less credible in the field.

It just shows the lengths to which global warming deniers will go to convince themselves that humans aren't causing it. If you say you're smarter than Steven Hawking because of his correct stance on global warming, then the correct term is Denier, not skeptic.

Answer 4

Let's see Global warming will cause the Earth to reach "250 degrees centigrade and raining sulfuric acid."

Yea, sure. That's really going to happen. Like planes were going to drop out of the sky on midnight Jan 1, 2000.

Additional Note: Johnny Walkup denies that any climatologist believes that the Earth will reach 250deg Cel, but that is what Hawkins states in the news article. Clearly he failed to read the article. I wonder how much what walkup reads is filtered by Johny Walker first, or maybe he just can't read? Anyones guess......

Answer 5

I don't deny global warming. I just know that the earth has been free of ice for most of its history and that the most productive part of earth's history has been when there was no ice on either pole.

Ice Ages are the disasters. Global Warming is how the earth recovers from those disasters.

Answer 6

The global warming conspiracy is all the leftists who are eager to punish big business for "destroying" the earth for profits. It has achieved cult level with them, you calling the skeptics "deniers" shows it is a religion for you.

I was a skeptic, but now am less of a skeptic after learning more about it. I am leery of liberals who want to use this issue to force their socialist ideology on the rest of us.

Answer 7

So knowing a good deal about the Big Bang and black holes somehow makes you a climate expert? Hawking is an attention hound who has somewhat fallen out of favor among his peers - well, he's respected but not seen as the infallible demi-god the public would make him out to be.

He is no longer on the cutting edge...

So, if other theoretical physicists might be reluctant to follow his lead on matters IN THE FIELD WHICH HE IS EXPERT, what makes you think he has any credibility when it comes to climate?

Answer 8

I think the preferred term is "contrarians". I love the way jello make hi stuff up. I'd like to find a climatologist and show him THAT version of Global Warming, so I could see him laugh.

Answer 9

The present global warming is an issue related to micro climatic changes or a long period beginning no body knows for sure. So any denial or acceptance of it is only superficial.
thnks

Answer 10

Stephen Hawkings has been known to be wrong before. This famous incident illustrates the groundbreaking theory of his career was in fact wrong and he clearly admits this now:

http://www.space.com/news/hawking_bet_040716.html

So no genius is infallible. I suppose anyone who calls himself an authority is automatically believed without question- if we believed in the genius Einstein, we would not have had quantum mechanics!

It's like going back to the days when humans worshiped "infallible" gods and "infallible" leaders. We obviously have not evolved much since then. So much for western enlightenment.