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The insurance faculty at the University of Exeter have assessed the risk from climate change (among other things).

The headline is:

"Highly likely Catastrophic warming levels experienced pre-2050, with Extreme warming possible".

"Catastrophic" is their category for >2 billion deaths, and "Extreme" is >4 billion deaths.

https://global-tipping-points.org/risk-dashboard/

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCollapse
Bar chart.
Title: Not the end of the world
What we think is effective in cutting our carbon footprint often isn't.
The bars show actions along with how many tonnes CO2 equivalent that that action saves in a year.
From "upgrade light bulbs: 0.1 per year" to "Give up SUV: 3.6 per year", with many others in between.
To these has been added "Shut down oil refinery: 5.0 per MINUTE".