A scientist who believed humans would die from the climate crisis has made a U-turn and now believes the issue may have been overblown.

Hannah Ritchie, a data scientist at the University of Oxford, claims that doomsday warnings of floods, widespread famine and deaths from disasters are overshadowing the progress that has been quietly made in recent years.

She pointed out how emissions per person peaked in 2012 and remained the same since, along with the notion that organic food is not more climate-friendly and that the dreaded 2.7F of warming is not a tipping point into oblivion

Ritchie, who published the book 'Not the End of the World,' recently shared the seven key points that led her to change her position on the climate crisis.

'To get this out of the way, let me make one thing absolutely clear: I'm not climate change denialist or minimizer,' reads an excerpt from Ritchie's book.

'I spent my life - inside and outside work - researching, writing, and trying to understand our environmental problems and how to solve them.'

She continued to explain that it may do less harm to consider that the total doom is an exaggeration as 'the exaggeration simply acts as a counterbalance to those who underplay the issue.'

'But I'm convinced that there is a better, more optimistic and honest way forward.' the book continued.

'It has become common to tell kids that they're going to die from climate change,' the first line of the Introduction reads.