Climate change making El Ninos more extreme: Study

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/climate-change-making-el-ninos-more-extreme-study/articleshow/72220970.cms?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=TOIDesktop&fbclid=IwAR2DT22XUTidQ5mp-dgp1vP_yXTzyeSVNBNbbggZ5WTT1p8H6fBkOwzcxoI

IANS | Nov 25, 2019, 13:47 IST

Human-induced climate change has made El Ninos, La Ninas, and the climate phenomenon that drives them more extreme in the industrial age, new research has found.

With greater intensity, these events can worsen storms, drought, and coral bleaching in El Nino years.

The findings, published in the journal Geophysical Review Letters, showed compelling evidence in the Pacific Ocean that the stronger El Ninos are part of a climate pattern that is new and strange.

•••••

The team found the industrial age El Nino Southern Oscillation swings to be 25 per cent stronger than in the pre-industrial records.

•••••

Every two to seven years in spring, an El Nino is born when the warm phase of the El Nino Southern Oscillation swells into a long heat blob in the tropical Pacific, typically peaking in early winter. It blows through oceans and air around the world, ginning up deluges, winds, heat or cold in unusual places.

•••••