I've always had respect for Hawking but have to agree he has become something of a doomsayer.
Something I've always been suspicious of...his interpreter. That guy claims he can understand what Hawking is saying...really? Can you really?
I think I really know what Hawking is saying...he's saying...don't listen to this guy beside me, he's making it up!!
"In recent years, Hawking has become something of a doom-monger who is determined to sketch out a variety of grim fates which await the human race.
In his latest prophecy, the professor suggested our planet could be destined to become totally uninhabitable.
“We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. 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 acid,”"