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Kim Cobb, professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, comments on a new research study of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The study indicates that rising ocean temperatures are doing more damage to coral reefs than previously thought. "A future that we thought was decades coming is basically here," Cobb says.