Is Global Warming a Hoax?

[BananaStand]

"population doubling every 40 years"

Yeah this is fucking ludicrous exponential growth

Hawking is talking out of his arse

I'm not sure where he's getting the 1.9% number, but I doubt he got it from his arse. A simple google inquiry told me that the most recent data for Earth's population growth is 1.1%. Which means that population doubles every 65-ish years.

So if we're at 7.5 billion now, that's 15 billion by 2082, 30 billion by 2147, and so on.

By 2600, at that rate, we'll have 3.8 TRILLION people on the planet.

[OngBonga]

I'm not sure where he's getting the 1.9% number, but I doubt he got it from his arse. A simple google inquiry told me that the most recent data for Earth's population growth is 1.1%. Which means that population doubles every 65-ish years.

So if we're at 7.5 billion now, that's 15 billion by 2082, 30 billion by 2147, and so on.

By 2600, at that rate, we'll have 3.8 TRILLION people on the planet.

Well this is way short of Howking's figure. I half arsed crunched his numbers, but didn't bother to post the workings. It was hundreds of trillions.

He's definitely talking out of his arse. He's just throwing shock numbers out there because he knows that lots of people have immense respect for him, know he's very clever, and thus listen to him. He probably gets a hand job off a honey government employee in return for saying things like this.

[Poopadoop]

He probably gets a hand job off a honey government employee in return for saying things like this.

(in electronic voice) "Oh baby, that's it. Work the head. I'm getting you a fellowship"