Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’:

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.

“Facing
a future of accelerating climate change while blind to worst-case
scenarios is naive risk management at best and fatally foolish at
worst,” the scientists said, adding that there were “ample reasons” to
suspect global heating could result in an apocalyptic disaster.

Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’: 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.“Facing
a future of accelerating climate change while blind to worst-case
scenarios is naive risk management at best and fatally foolish at
worst,” the scientists said, adding that there were “ample reasons” to
suspect global heating could result in an apocalyptic disaster.Read More