[thaumasiotes]

> "Climate change is not predicted to exterminate humans." It is. It's not predicted to make Homo sapiens sapiens extinct, like you probably meant

Sorry, but the only legitimate way to interpret "climate change is predicted to exterminate humans" is as a claim that the species will go extinct.

You do not appear to be a native English speaker:

> the way you did questioned the scientific competence of other contributors is reducing the value of the entire sentence you were replying to

> you probably do not understand what I've wrote

> I wrote [?] the people that paid my education

You're probably better off not trying to do fine interpretation on English sentences.

[aww_dang]

Broadly speaking there's a long history of doomsday predictions. Credentialed members of academia or religious institutions have participated in doomsaying throughout history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap...

Regardless of if the claim is or isn't being semantically backpedaled, I think historical context is important here.