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Stephen Hawking: Earth Could Become Like Venus

Before an audience of 500 at a seminar in Beijing, the celebrity cosmologist said he was afraid that Earth "might end up like Venus, at 250 degrees centigrade and raining sulfuric acid.'' The comment is a pointed one for China, which is the second largest emitter of the greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming.

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