'Off-the-charts' El Niño could spark global economic crisis, UN warns
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The El Niño is releasing heat that the ocean has stored for a long time, but does it actually heat up the earth?
'Off-the-charts' El Niño could spark global economic crisis, UN warns
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned that an exceptionally powerful El Niño could drive Pacific Ocean temperatures to unprecedented levels, triggering extreme heat, droughts and floods across the world. The damage won't stop on the front lines, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher warned, predicting global economic shocks and "further conflict, displacement, migration…
The UN called for anticipated measures to protect populations most exposed to the El Niño climate phenomenon, which can reach an intensity that is unprecedented and literally exceed monitoring scales, with temperatures 3.8°C above average. The post WMO warns about El Niño colossal and off-scale at the end of the year appeared first in MetSul Meteorology.
According to the latest report of the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), El Niño has already reached “unprecedented intensity.” In other words, in the four decades during which it was monitored, El Niño has [...]
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