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‘Gobsmackingly bananas’ El Niño shatters global records
NASA / VIIRS data courtesy of NOAA.
What happened
AlterNet, republishing Grist, reported that a developing El Niño had pushed temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the Pacific to 3.11 degrees Celsius above normal, surpassing the peak recorded in November 2015. Forecast models cited in the article put the chance of the event remaining “very strong” through the end of that year at 90 percent.
The report said the naturally occurring shift in Pacific winds and water was intensifying extreme weather against a background of rapid, fossil-fuel-driven warming. Scientists warned of consequences for…
The skinny
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