Kurt Eichenwald, last heard from while tweeting about tentacle porn, and Howard Dean, whose wrongness on the Constitution has been a source of amusement for months, want you to listen to “smartest man” in the world Stephen Hawking over Rush Limbaugh:
Rush Limbaugh, college dropout, belittles the analysis of Stephen Hawking, worlds smartest man. Millions believe Rush. Idiocracy has arrived
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) July 7, 2017
IDIOTS are arguing that saying an amazing scientist knows more bout science than college dropout w/ no training is "argument from authority"
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) July 7, 2017
All of u who think college dropout radio host on par w/ one of worlds most brilliant scientists on science: Get ur surgery from ur gardener.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) July 7, 2017
Oh come on Kurt. Rush has been an idiot for decades. https://t.co/5jJSUnKnLk
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) July 7, 2017
Now, we don’t know exactly what they’re pissy about but the last big story in the news with Hawking was his warning that because President Trump withdrew from the unenforceable Paris climate agreement, Earth is going to turn into … wait for it … Venus:
"Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus," Stephen Hawking on @POTUS climate stance https://t.co/DY1OQyJZYA pic.twitter.com/C31QB2CCWb
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 2, 2017
Literally like Venus:
“We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible,” he said. “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.”
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And can this really happen? NOPE. From Mother Jones:
So is it time to forget about rising sea levels and start to look for a new planet to inhabit before ours boils into the next Venus? Not quite. Goldblatt expects this kind of transformation to take place in about a billion years, regardless of human activity. The level of atmospheric carbon dioxide needed to tip the scales—about 30,000 parts per million, according to Goldblatt—is far beyond what humans are capable of contributing. Indeed, that’s about 10 times what CO2 levels would be even if we quickly burned through all the remaining fossil fuels. (Right now we’re at about 400 ppm, which is already bad.)
“There’s no evidence that human action could cause this,” Goldblatt says.
Phew.
In other words, we’re not going to see this kind of extreme climate change no matter how obstinate Congress is about taking even the most basic climate action.
Alrighty then. We’ll stick with Rush on this one.
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