The findings strongly suggest reef-building corals haven't experienced anything like the recent sea surface temperatures in at least the past 400 years- and the accompanying devastation of mass coral bleaching is bleak.
Climate model analysis confirms that human influence on the climate system is responsible for the rapid warming in recent decades, as stated in the study published in Nature.
The coral is the canary in the coal mine of global warming, highly sensitive to even subtle increases in sea temperature, and could face mass bleaching annually if global warming escalates.
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