As Super El Niño Strengthens, Study Suggests that Climate Change Is Intensifying El Niños
The study uses 900 years of coral records to link stronger El Niño events to warming, with a 16% rise in the last 40 years.
- A study in Thursday's journal Science reports El Niño events are more than 36% stronger than before the industrial age began in the mid-1800s, with a 16% jump in just the last 40 years.
- Cole examined 29 coral fossils from the Galapagos Islands to reconstruct temperatures spanning more than 900 years, using the approach as 'a time machine to look into the past.'
- Citing the study's importance, Brown University scientist Kim Cobb called the coral data a 'goldmine,' while Dalhousie University marine scientist Boris Worm warned, 'The climate system is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks.'
- Pennsylvania scientist Michael Mann and North Carolina scientist John Bruno remain skeptical, noting the coral data conflicts with recent water temperature observations near the Galapagos.
- Increased El Niño strength closely parallels global temperature rises caused by human activities like burning fossil fuels, with scientists warning larger events will continue 'dialing up the pace and severity of weather and climate extremes.
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Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years
Temperatures have warmed dramatically across the equatorial Pacific Ocean in 2026, signaling the onset of a strong and potentially historic El Niño. These events can affect weather around the world, and the intensity of recent El Niño events is raising alarm that, as global temperatures rise, they are becoming stronger and more destructive.
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As super El Niño strengthens, study suggests that climate change is intensifying El Niños
A new study suggests that El Niños — natural climatic chaos agents that spike global temperatures — are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change.
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