• The claim misrepresents the actual scientific consensus on climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which represents hundreds of climate scientists, names many serious risks from global warming but does not list human extinction or the complete destruction of all life on Earth among them¹.

• The characterization that scientists claimed global warming would "kill the world" is an exaggeration. While scientists have warned that a 3°C increase could cause mass extinction events and make large portions of Earth uninhabitable², this is not the same as saying the world itself would be destroyed or all life would end.

• Climate scientists, as a whole, are careful not to frame climate change as an apocalyptic event. According to MIT's Climate Portal, "climate scientists, as a whole, are not warning us to prepare for the apocalypse"¹.

• Some individuals, including researchers, have held the personal belief that climate change would cause mass human die-offs, but data analysis has shown this view to be incorrect. As one data scientist wrote, "I thought most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. I was wrong"³.

Overall validity: 15%

1. Will climate change drive humans extinct or destroy civilization? | MIT Climate Portal
2. Extinctions and climate change | Environmental Sciences | Research Starters | EBSCO Research
3. I thought most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. I was wrong