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, with a 16% acceleration in the last 40 years, according to lead author Julia Cole, a paleoclimate scientist at the University of Michigan.
- Cole examined 29 coral fossils from the Galapagos Islands spanning more than 900 years to reconstruct historical temperatures, using the approach as 'a time machine to look into the past,' she said.
- Dalhousie University marine scientist Boris Worm warned, 'The climate system is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks,' while Brown University scientist Kim Cobb called the coral data 'a goldmine.'
- 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 intensifying weather and climate extremes worldwide.
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