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…
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).
Well for example, I read they’re harvesting coral samples so we can try to regrow the coral reefs in the future.
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…
Oh no. I held onto that as some semblance of good news for the corals😭
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).