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GQ spotlights eight places whose very identities depend on a simple calculation: If we limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, these places could be saved. In a 2-degree scenario, they would be irredeemably lost. One of those places is a line of heat-damaged coral reefs in the central Pacific's Line Islands chain, where Kim Cobb, ADVANCE Professor and Georgia Power Chair in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has conducted studies. The impact has already been devastating, Cobb says, adding, “I can’t even imagine what it would look like at 2 degrees Celsius.”
