I'm curious to know if the so-called "thinkers" includes Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio.   And Gorbachev?!  Looking at the pathetic environmental record of the Soviet Union and Russia, featuring Gorbachev is like having bin Laden explain the significance of the Bar Mitzvah.

I suspect that li'l' Leo will be rather disappointed.

With all due respect to the mind of Stephen Hawking, the man NEVER took his intelligence or work seriously until his physical abilities were taken from him.  Now he sits and over thinks, over analyzes his scientific and mathamatical theories ... and YES, even Hawking is challenged aggressively by those in his own field on his theories ... But the difference is (between that, and how  challenges on GW theories are debated) is that THERE IS DEBATE in Hawking's scientific field, and the opposing side and their theories and studies are taken seriously ... In GW one side has shut down completely the debate to the other side and declared "consensus" (AND is making money from doing such) ... When in fact there are just as many scientists on the other side of GW that disagree with much of the GW Cultists' consensus .

Nice poster. Yeah real nice.

Anybody else notice the carbon footprint on the poster is a lug sole ... but upon first glance one immediately thinks "military boot" (And almost entirely over the North American land mass?)?  Anyhow, it was my reaction.

Did you notice that list of people who appear in the film? Some of the smartest, most forwarding thinking people on the planet. I guess it's no surprise, then, that the film is being dissed at a conservative website.

Benny Peiser, an expert in apocalyptic movements and neocatastrophism at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, (has) criticized Hawking for increasingly unfounded and erratic doomsday prophesies.

Peiser told SPACE.com he thought Hawking's words constituted "regrettable hype."

"Stephen Hawking's predictions of terrestrial doom have become increasingly wide-ranging and unreasonable in recent years," Peiser writes. "They also manifest a certain arbitrariness in his choice of end-time scenarios."

A year ago, Hawking warned that global warming would make Earth as deadly a place as Venus, also saying humanity might not survive the next 1,000 years. Peiser called Hawking's latest prediction "both fatalistic and highly unlikely. It also violates scientific risk assessments commonly used for hazard estimation."

Peiser said apocalyptics typically exaggerate possible future dangers while ignoring or underestimating the probability of finding a social, technological or medical remedy for any given predicament.

"The risks of genetic engineering or bioterrorism are genuine," Peiser says. "But like all the other major hazards, they need to be evaluated and weighed up against our increasing capabilities to control and influence life, nature and society."

Peiser draws on history for examples of our steadfastness as a species. "For more than 5 million years, hominids and human beings have survived recurring onslaughts of ice ages, global catastrophes due to asteroidal and cometary impacts as well as global plague epidemics," he points out.

"Technological and societal evolution has now reached a level of complexity that renders the probability of human survival for the next 1,000 years drastically higher than at any previous stage of our long history."

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