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El Niño is a naturally occurring phenomenon, but scientific study is ongoing as to whether there is a link between it and climate change.
This is because increased global temperatures are already associated with more extreme weather, so when El Niño and climae change coincide this has a duel impact on extreme weather.
El Niño can lead to extreme weather (Frederic Desmoulins/Getty)
El Niño can lead to extreme weather (Frederic Desmoulins/Getty)
The last time that there was a very strong El Niño was back in 2015 and 2016, in an event which caused massive destruction both to the natural environment and to humans, including wildfires, floods, droughts, and disruption to agriculture.
Now, some scientists are predicting that the coming summer could be the hottest on record, and there is a 25 percent chance of a ‘super El Niño’.
Meanwhile, a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center said that there is also a 62 percent chance of El Niño beginning between June and August which could last until the end of the year.
El Niño leads to several extreme weather events, and can have a very varied impact (Vince Streano/Getty)
El Niño leads to several extreme weather events, and can have a very varied impact (Vince Streano/Getty)
This is when water temperatures are at least four degrees higher than they would be on average.
In a new paper, Columbia climatologist Dr. James Hansen has said that ‘2026 will be the warmest year in the period of instrumental temperature measurements’.
Dr Hansen added that ‘2027 will be still hotter’.
El Niño and La Niña are the warm and cool parts of the climate pattern in the tropical Pacific ocean, with the formal name being the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, abbreviated to the ENSO cycle.
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With how advanced science and technology is nowadays, it’s pretty incredible what new things we continue to discover.
Just recently, scientists discovered a massive ‘ocean’ beneath Earth’s surface, while it was also uncovered that Earth could soon lose a second for the first time in history.
One of the more interesting scientific discoveries was uncovered in Australia in 2022, as the country could be harbouring a remarkable subterranean secret that could change planet Earth as we know it.
The intriguing findings were published in an essay featured in The Conversation.
In that, geologist Andrew Glikson claimed that his latest research has a lot of evidence pointing to something big being on the cards.
Scientists have discovered the ‘world’s largest’ asteroid.
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First of all, it suggests that an asteroid crater could be buried underneath Australia, which is pretty big news in itself.
On top of that, the expert’s research concluded that it was the largest known on the planet, and by a huge margin as well.
Further information regarding the findings was published in the journal Tectonophysics in 2023.
The study, conducted by Glikson and his colleague Tony Yeates, discusses the Deniliquin structure, a rather large asteroid structure that is estimated to be over 320 miles in diameter.
If that diameter proves to be accurate, it would dwarf the largest confirmed impact structure in the world right now.
The Vredefort Crater in South Africa is approximately 100 miles wide, and on top of that, you’ve got the Chicxulub Crater of a similar size.
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