TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2026|No. 18551
Climate Change · El Niño

Scientists Link Extreme El Niños to Climate Change, Urge Faster Net-Zero Goals

Researchers warn that intensifying El Niño events, driven by climate change, necessitate accelerated efforts to achieve net-zero emissions to mitigate their severe impacts.

Satellite imagery depicting atmospheric conditions associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation phenomenon.
Satellite imagery depicting atmospheric conditions associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation phenomenon. · Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash
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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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