Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest
1000-year archive from the Galápagos portends greater weather disruptions from the Pacific climate cycle
Human-induced climate change is intensifying El Niño events, according to coral records from the Galápagos Islands, according to a new study published in Science. The findings suggest that today's El Niños are much stronger than those experienced in the past, and potentially the strongest in living memory. This trend is backed by physical evidence from fossilized corals and complements climate models that have previously been inconclusive about the link between El Niño and climate change.
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