Why are El Ninos getting stronger? 1000-year-coral record points to climate change
Nature, Published online: 27 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02717-9 A reconstruction of Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures adds to the evidence that human-caused warming is boosting El Niño events.
Julia Cole, a palaeoclimatologist, remarks that the intense El Niño event currently intensifying in the Pacific Ocean should not come as a surprise. She believes it is merely part of a century-long pattern of increasingly frequent strong El Niño events brought about by global warming due to human activities. Cole is confident that this is not an isolated incident.
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