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.
@bastianallgeier
"People don't seem to grasp the irreversibility of such changes in ecological systems."
Because nobody is telling them about the magnitude and the speed this will happen, rather say is happening already. #extremweather #hotOceans #dyingCoralReefs #DyingKrill
It's ALWAYS downplayed by politicians and media.
Scientists are warning since decades. But deciders are going on with biz as usual. The multisystemchanges(!) urgently needed globally are nowhere to see.
