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There is a critical gap between how the scientific community and the public conceptualize the consequences of human-caused climate change, as new research suggests we are ignoring the truly worst-case and catastrophic risks.



The consequences of climate change—from record-breaking heat waves in Europe to devastating wildfires in the U.S. this summer alone—are forcing themselves to the forefront of people’s attention.

But as bad as things are, some scientists are warning that we might be missing the point on even bigger and more existential risks to humanity if the world doesn’t get its act together on containing human-caused planet-warming emissions.

In a new paper, researchers from institutions including the University of Cambridge and China’s Nanjing University argue that the worst-case scenarios of climate change are being “dangerously underexplored” by the scientific community.

According to the authors, the possibility of “worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction” is not completely out of the question, as current rates of warming “may surpass thresholds that triggered previous mass extinctions” in the past.

Climate’s worst-case scenario

Due to planet-warming particulate emissions caused by humans since the Industrial Revolution, temperatures are now 1.1° C (1.9° F) higher than they were at the end of the 19th century, and could increase by 1.5° C (2.7° F) as early as the next decade, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).


Hitting this point will cause shifts that would “persist for centuries to millennia and will continue to cause further long-term changes in the climate system,” the IPCC has warned, including sea level rise, coastal erosion, heat waves, and climate-related risks to health and livelihoods around the world.

The climate impacts of hitting 1.5° C or even 2° C worth of temperature rise are well-documented by the IPCC, which is considered the top international authority on climate change impacts, and provides regular scientific assessments by assembling and reviewing the latest climate science studies from around the world.

But beyond that, there is a precarious lack of knowledge and perspective on the consequences of climate change on humanity, the authors of the new paper warn.

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