The climate risk to human extinction or total societal collapse has been “dangerously underexplored” according to a group of climate scientists.
It follows a study called ‘Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios’ led by Dr Luke Kemp at Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
The work, which involved experts around the world, found while uncertainties on future emissions suggest the chance of climate catastrophe is small there are “ample reasons” to suspect such scenarios can’t be ruled out.
