Climate change: Almost all ocean surface climates could disappear by 2100

Such novel ocean surface climates have never existed before on Earth.

She added that “some people have called that an adapt or die scenario.”

To form conclusions, the team modeled ocean surface climates across the 300-year timespan.

That’s bad news for marine creatures.

If emissions are lessened to follow RCP 4.5, that figure plunges to 10% of the ocean surface.

The rest of the globe would need to be analyzed before a “novel” declaration is made.