CBC News 95% of existing ocean climates could disappear by 2100 if CO2 emissions continue to climb “Previous studies have looked at specific locations and said, ‘Okay, this location’s getting warmer, or this location is getting acidic.’ What we did was, we looked at the whole climate of the global ocean,” said lead author Katie Lotterhos, associate professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center in Nahant, Maine.