Here's a question about global warming ...

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... I've not seen an answer to. Will Earth warm enough (from our own overenthusiasm for greenhouse gases) to significantly reduce human populations, and then slowly return to a more temperate equilibrium? Or can/will it heat enough to make humankind extinct, and then return to 'normal'?

Has anyone done any theorizing about this?

[I come from a tradition of asking stupid questions sometimes yields new insights ...]