World Has Slim Chance to Avoid Intense Warming
When Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change earlier this year, Stephen Hawking did not hesitate to publicise his horror.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," he told the BBC. The decision of one man, damaging decades of increasing global political awareness of the urgent nature of climate change, would cause avoidable environmental damage to our beautiful planet" he added.