Pinpointing our oceans’ tipping point
The key to preventing such damage is to know what that tipping point is – which is exactly what the COMFORT project has worked on. The project looked at contributing factors such as warming, acidification, biological carbon production, and oxygen content. What it found offered little in the way of comfort, with some thresholds having already been crossed and others likely to be passed soon. The good news is that the project also proposed several mitigation strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that could begin tipping our oceans in a better direction.