Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’
by Damian Carrington Environment editor from on (#621SB)
Scientists say there are ample reasons to suspect global heating could lead to catastrophe
The risk of global societal collapse or human extinction has been dangerously underexplored", climate scientists have warned in an analysis.
They call such a catastrophe the climate endgame". Though it had a small chance of occurring, given the uncertainties in future emissions and the climate system, cataclysmic scenarios could not be ruled out, they said.
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