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No, there are places that are borderline unhabitable now that will become more livable as the climate warms. Here's one study:

http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/jmp2265/?page_id=48

As a tangible example, Greenland is now starting to be warm enough to grow potatoes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6993612.stm

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Isn't the methane release going to accelerate the warming exponentially to the point of mass-extintion? The so-called feedback effect. Permafrost is thawing 70 years before the simplistic models predicted:

- https://www.livescience.com/65709-arctic-permafrost-melts-de...

- https://envisionation.co.uk/index.php/nick-breeze/203-subsea...

Also, there is Nitrous Oxide too, which will deplete the Ozone layer:

- https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/06/harvard-chemi...

I'm not qualified to comment on whether Earth will eventually end up looking like Venus, I'm just pointing out that in the short term there will be places that gain from climate change as well.

I think it's pretty safe to say that Earth will not end up looking like Venus from a simple fact that there were times in its history when greenhouse gas concentrations were much higher than even the wildest projections you'd see today, and yet here we are. Now granted, there weren't any people back then, but the planet did not turn into Venus.

They're not going to be so nice when they're at the other end of a four-billion-person refugee crisis in a few decades.

If we continue our current path it seems likely that the ecosystem collapses hard enough that even places where the climate becomes nicer for humans will be hard to inhabit, for example because phytoplankton in the oceans dies off and we run out of oxygen.

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