Posted on 03/20/2017 11:29:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
British scientist Stephen Hawking fears he "may not be welcome" in the United States now that Donald Trump is President.
In an interview with ITV's Good Morning Britain on Monday, Hawking described President Trump's election as "a definite swing to a right-wing" and a "more authoritarian approach."
He was especially critical of the appointment of Scott Pruitt, "a man who does not believe that carbon dioxide causes climate change," as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
"He should replace Scott Pruitt at the Environment Protection Agency," Hawking told ITV.
"Climate change is one of the great dangers we face, and it's one we can prevent," he said.
"It affects America badly, so tackling it should win votes for [Trump's] second term, God forbid."
He suggested that the appointment of Pruitt, as well as the promise of a border wall and the sanctioning of two oil pipelines, are designed to "satisfy [Trump's] electorate, who are neither liberal nor that well-informed."
"I have many friends and colleagues [in the US] and it is still a place I like and admire in many ways," he said, "but I fear that I may not be welcome."(continued)
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These days I have doubts as to whether his translators are conveying Hawking's thoughts, or injecting their own.
No one is denying science, we are denying when government zoning and eminent domain comes in lieu of a farmer’s knowledge of the land, period
BINGO!
Hawking is a puppet that gets its voice from a computer. If he is so smart, why cant he make his computer not sound like a computer?
Dear Prof Stupid: In Obama’s America, a disabled “liability” like you would have been killed in the womb...kindly shut your mouth...er, well, you know what I mean...
Oh brother.
He’ll have to share space on the victim wagon with Khazir Khan and his dead son who would supposedly (according to his father) not be welcome here if he were alive.
Genius often carries with it a definitive lack of common sense.
Hawking is way past his expiration date.
Why wouldn’t a fellow adulterer be welcomed?
Make all future spacecraft handicap accessible.
Problem solved.
Yahoo is using this poor soul to advertize for a pill to enhance mental abiliy. He may be smart, but in everything that I read that he has said, I think not so much.
Hawking has no ability to understand society, culture, or government, much less religion or politics. The ability to carry obtuse abstractions to the Nth power does not equate with being able to understand human affairs. He may be a genius at math but he is a functional illiterate in the area of human dignity, as are all liberal globalist leftists.
No problem Steve-o. The NAZI’s are out of power now.
A more authoritarian approach? You mean like in Europe where you can be thrown into jail for saying something negative about a certain religion?
You might be a very smart man in your field, Mr. Hawking, but beyond that point, you don’t know what you are talking about.
Oh, he’d be welcome here; he’s the world’s number one expert at milking that old sympathy teat.
Thank you for sharing that with us.
For a smart guy, that was a pretty stupid comment.
You MAY very well be welcome.
Stephen Hawking does not look like a man who can change the sun’s activity. Nor the movements of asteroids or rumblings in the core of the earth. Sure, we’ll let him in, but he’s a little full of himself if he thinks he can change the universe.
It’s not Trump’s America you ignorant egghead. It is OUR America. Mr. Trump serves at our pleasure. And WE are well pleased. So take a chill pill.
Show me the science, nerd.
You know, hypothesis, experiment, that sort of thing.
"Climate change is one of the great dangers we face, and it's one we can prevent," he said.
No, Steve, humans cannot prevent climate change. Anyone who thinks we can either has a massive God complex or doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. Or both.
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