We've reached the first tipping point (99% probability even if we'd manage to keep the 1.5 degree target) This means coral reefs on any meaningful scale will be lost. Nearly a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend on them.
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5861/new-reality-as-world-reaches-first-climate-tipping-point & https://global-tipping-points.org
To roughly quote Maja Göpel: People don't seem to grasp the irreversibility of such changes in ecological systems.
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@bastianallgeier > a billion people depend on them
What does this even mean? Are they going to die, and at what timescale? Or what is the observable effect if the hypothesis is right?
