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

By Aditya Sengupta, PhD Candidate, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Andrew King, ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
Josephine Brown, Associate professor, The University of Melbourne
Mandy Freund, Lecturer, Climate Science Geography, The University of Melbourne
Nicola Maher, DECRA/Research Fellow, Climate Science, Australian National University

The 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…

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