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Erm, no, lol. Not even close. They can kill some or maybe all of the human race. The planet though? It's been through way more dramatic climate change in just the last 100,000 years than us pesky humans could even dream about causing.
Nuclear Armageddon you say? Even a nuclear winter can only last so long. Modern nukes are much more about blast shockwave, and burning things than spreading radioactive materials anyway. Chernobyl released way more radionuclides than your average bomb, and that was comparatively not a big deal.
The biggest extinction events are always super volcanoes. Short of interference from the outside universe like a gamma ray burst or the sun dying the volcanoes will still be the source of the most severe extinction events. Do you really think we could do something a giant meteor couldn't? Piss off.
Preventing climate change is all about saving our own arses and the arses of those unlucky species currently stuck with us.
Fun fact: The Earth has not had oxygen for a longer time than it has had oxygen, and it changes states.