Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it?

mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• naught101@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They are trying, but… I was at a talk by a leading coral reef scientist last year, he said it would if it worked well, doing enough of it to maintain the Great Barrier Reef would cost on the order of ten trillion dollars a year…

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  • mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh no. I held onto that as some semblance of good news for the corals😭

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    • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There will be some corals that survive, and some that migrate poleward or into deeper water. But yeah, large reef ecosystems are definitely screwed at +2°C, and probably even at +1.5°C (it’ll take some time though).

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