Griper Blade: Sometimes, I Think Bush is Actually For Global Warming

When the man who's name has become synonymous with genius comes out against your BS, your side of the argument takes a little bit of a hit. Cambridge Professor Stephen Hawking, a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author of the book A Brief History of Time, warns that global warming is a problem. A big problem. A humanity threatening problem.

The Independent:

Climate change stands alongside the use of nuclear weapons as one of the greatest threats posed to the future of the world, the Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking has said.

Professor Hawking said that we stand on the precipice of a second nuclear age and a period of exceptional climate change, both of which could destroy the planet as we know it.

"As we stand at the brink of a second nuclear age and a period of unprecedented climate change, scientists have a special responsibility, once again, to inform the public and to advise leaders about the perils that humanity faces," Professor Hawking told the Royal Society in London tuesday. Hawking's address was in relation to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists setting ahead the 'Doomsday Clock,' which measures how close humanity is to nuclear war. Citing war in the Middle East, more nations seeking nuclear weapons, and predicting wars over resources made rarer by climate change, the Bulletin set the clock closer to midnight than it has been in at least 20 years.

So it's good news that President Bush is going to make energy and global warming a key point in his State of the Union address next week, right? Right?

Well, not so much...

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