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Is climate change the greatest threat facing humanity today? (Article)

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How Climate Change Could Increase Extinction Risk?

There is much more uncertainty about how other things will change. This makes for a very small chance that climate model uncertainty means things could be radically worse. As a result, it's extremely unlikely – we'd guess less than one in a million chance – that we'll see the temperature changes necessary for climate change too directly lead to extinction.

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