During an interview with the British "BBC", which the world famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking gave last weekend, he said that all of humanity urgently needs to leave the Earth, and the US withdrawal from the Paris agreement on climate change entails "irreversible" effects.
According to Hawking, we are already quite close to the so-called "point of no return", reaching which, the onset of global warming can no longer be avoided. And the current reign of US President Donald Trump may cause the Earth to cross this "barrier", after which it will overtake the "fate" of Venus with incessant acid showers and a prevailing temperature of 250 degrees Celsius.
However, Gareth Jones, a climatologist at the British Meteorological Center, as well as its other experts, disagreed to Hawking's "predictions." Today, no serious scientist in the world can provide convincing evidence that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions can trigger the transformation of the Earth into Venus. Jones noted that even if all the hydrocarbons on our planet are burned, the temperature is expected to rise by about 10 degrees Celsius. And a self-sustaining greenhouse effect can only form with a temperature rise of hundreds of degrees.
Zeke Hausfather, an American climatologist from the University of California at Berkeley, was also in solidarity with British scientists, ridiculing the statement of the famous astrophysicist, and calling such "sayings" symptoms of the disease called "Nobel laureate."
And according to Michael Mann, an American climatologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the Earth is quite far from the Sun, so the emergence of a powerful greenhouse effect, similar to that which "reigns" on Venus, is impossible.
Interestingly, all scientists unconditionally agree with Hawking that the onset of global warming in the future is absolutely real. And with the withdrawal of the US and other countries from the Paris Climate Agreement, mankind will practically not be able to keep the 1.5-2 degrees Celsius mark. Of course, this will not lead to the transformation of the Earth into a giant greenhouse, but ecosystems will undergo large-scale restructuring, sea level will rise by several meters, and abnormal weather events will cause a sharp increase in mortality.