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Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

📅 Published: August 1, 2022 👤 Luke Kemp, Chi Xu, Joanna Depledge et al. 📖 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 📊 758 citations
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Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. 4) How can these multiple strands of evidence-together with other global dangers-be usefully synthesized into an "integrated catastrophe assessment"?

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Key Findings
  • 1 Yet, for climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood.
  • 2 Could anthropogenic climate change result in worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction?
  • 3 At present, this is a dangerously underexplored topic.
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This work deepens our understanding of the fundamental laws governing the universe, from subatomic particles to cosmic structures.

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Category ⚛️ Physics & Space Science
Published Aug 1, 2022
Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI 10.1073/pnas.2108146119
Citations 758
Authors Luke Kemp, Chi Xu, Joanna Depledge, Kristie L. Ebi, Goodwin Gibbins