A new paper argues that the worst-case scenarios of climate catastrophe are little explored—and we need to be prepared.
“We aimed to develop a rationale and scientific foundation for researching climate calamity: the question of whether climate change could result in global societal collapse, or even eventual human extinction,” lead author Luke Kemp from Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk told Earther in an email.
he goals of the Paris Agreement—keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius at most, 1.5 degrees Celsius in the best-cientists often shy away from sounding “alarmist,” Kemp said, in order to keep the public’s attention in the face of misinformation campaigns from Big Oil and other bad aof more extreme climate change and complex risks, which will bring around huge changes, are harder to study than what may happen with a smaller degree of warming.uthors say, is being reflected in climate research.
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