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The current El Niño, a weather pattern of devastating droughts and catastrophic floods that can affect tens of millions of people around the globe, is expected to strengthen further by year’s end, on track to be one of the three strongest in 65 years, according to the latest update from the United Nations weather agency.
“Our planet has altered dramatically because of climate change, the general trend towards a warmer global ocean, the loss of Arctic sea ice and of over a million square kilometres of summer snow cover in the northern hemisphere. So this naturally occurring El Niño event and human induced climate change may interact and modify each other in ways which we have never before experienced…”
Read Full Article, United Nations News Center
El Niño and La Niña will Exacerbate Coastal Hazards Across Entire Pacific, USGS (09-24-2015)
Extreme Pacific Sea Level Events to Double in Future, Science Daily (09-27-2015)
