I will pay to send climate change deniers to Venus: Hawking
World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has reiterated that if global warming continues Earth would one day look like Venus, which has surface temperatures of over 470Â°C. "Next time you meet a climate change denier, tell them to take a trip to Venus. I will pay the fare," Hawking said. Venus was much like Earth 4.5 billion years ago, according to NASA.