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When something goes against scientific stablished consensus, onus of the proof falls into the party that argues against it, not the one that states what is currently well known and accepted.

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Can you cite that that’s what is “currently well known and accepted”. Burden of proof is on whoever is making the statement.

That's fine as long as you understand that the alternative is "I don't know if the claim is true", not "the claim is false".

Yeah that's definitely the approach. It's simply an "unvalidated" statement either way, until evidence is provided to support it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climat...

https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/17/do-scientists-agree-on-clima...

Not actually a citation for the statement that 'Climate change makes coral reefs suffer more', so not terribly helpful in this context.

Those are easy to find, too.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coralreef-climate.html

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