A “Super” El Niño May Be Coming - Here’s What It Means

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  Global weather agencies have declared that El Nino has begun and models show it is more likely

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  than not to be a super El Nino or even what is sometimes called a Godzilla El Nino.

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  The climate pattern boosts extreme weather around the world and could lead to record high temperatures.

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  Yeah, El Nino is a natural climate event but global heating will amplify the impacts

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  and it could also make the phenomenon itself stronger, much stronger and more far-reaching.

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  From New Scientist, this is the world, the universe, and us.

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  I'm Dr Penny Sarge.

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  And I'm Dr Owen Hooper.

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  Now, I just said El Nino is this natural climate event,

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  but our reporter, Michael LePage, has been reporting on studies recently showing

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  that because of the climate crisis, the impacts of El Nino, even standard El Nino's, will be worse.

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  Yes, the computer simulations that Michael reported on predict a shift to much stronger El Niño-La Niña extremes,

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