Actual Carbon Emissions vs. IPCC Scenarios - how far away is safety?

[AverageJoe90]

19. OK, I do realize I could have been clearer. However, my point does still stand.

My apologies. But how am I abusing the word?

Again, let's look at past disasters. Humanity is not invincible, true, but you gotta admit we're a pretty hardy lot when the going gets tough, even if not everybody makes it.
To say human extinction is inevitable, or even close to it, because of global warming alone, as some have said in the past(such as Malcolm Light, for example, if you remember the controversy behind his "all life extinct by mid-century" article back in the summer of this year.), is not only an article of faith, or at least similar to it, but totally unprovable as well.
It can be legitimately argued that we can't safely predict humanity's future beyond, say, a century or two or so, in any direction, that is true, but we can look back at past events of similar magnitude as well as the science, and while the science does say that there could be serious trouble ahead, especially if we do nothing to act, it does not say, by any means, OTOH, that human extinction is inevitable, or even any sort of likely, and certainly not so within our lifetimes or those of the next generation or two immediately ahead of us.