El Niños Could Be More Common in Our Future Unless We Change Course, Research Suggests

Later Net Zero means more extreme El Niño years for centuries, study f

Extreme El Niño events, such as those that brought the droughts behind Southeast Asia’s haze crises in 1997 and 2015, could become more frequent the later the world reaches net zero, and stay that way for centuries, according to modelling led by the Unive

El Niños could be more common in our future unless we change course, research suggests

Experts say there is a fast track to limiting the recurrence of El Niño patterns in the future: get to Net Zero faster.

Extreme El Niños are coming. Reaching net zero sooner means facing fewer of them

Ashish Kumar/GettyThe world is on the cusp of an historic El Niño, a climate pattern centred in the Pacific that could reshape weather across the planet. El Niño is hardly a new phenomenon, but forecasts indicate the coming one could be the biggest ever recorded. Research suggests extreme El Niño years will become more common as the world rapidly warms, driven by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions. Our new research examines the reasons why El N…