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.
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.
You might just be shocked by words like "not caused by humans" and have reacted reflexively. Sometimes climate changes really aren't caused by humans.