Reacción a "Warm-water coral reefs pass their point of no return"

Beyond the controversy over what is and is not a tipping point, the new report makes it clear that every year there is an increase in the scope and magnitude of the negative impacts of climate change, that every year more people are experiencing more prolonged and diverse impacts, and that every year those impacts are accelerating.

There is now clear evidence of collapse profiles in many large-scale ecosystems, including the degradation of coral reefs and their provision of fisheries for hundreds of millions of people, the degradation of parts of the Amazon, and the slowdown of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation that influences the climate of Europe, Africa, and the many tropical countries affected by the monsoon.

All of these risk profiles and impacts increase rapidly with further global warming and are therefore one of the most compelling reasons to act quickly to reduce greenhouse gases.