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El Niño Likely to Bring Warm, Dry, Smoky Summer to Minnesota, MPCA Says
Scientists say a strong El Niño could drive average global temperatures to about 1.7 C above preindustrial levels, with lasting climate shifts.
- In a world already superheated, a strong El Niño during the next 12 to 18 months could permanently push Earth's average annual temperature past the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming threshold, according to scientific documents.
- Climate scientists recently published a study in Nature Communications showing strong El Niño events trigger "climate regime shifts," meaning abrupt, lasting changes in heat, rainfall, and drought patterns.
- Impacts like coral bleaching and mass die-offs persist for decades, according to Jong-Seong Kug of Seoul National University, who identified "regime-shift hotspots" in oceans including the North Pacific and Gulf.
- International public adaptation finance fell to $26 billion in 2023, according to the United Nations Environment Programme's 2025 Adaptation Gap Report, far short of the hundreds of billions developing countries will need annually by 2035.
- The MPCA predicted an "active" air quality season in a news release Thursday, May 7, warning the state could see four to six days of unhealthy ozone levels this summer.
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