The study is the most substantial yet to answer whether greenhouse gases are increasing the intensity of El Nino/La Nina. Read more at straitstimes.com.
after being linked to record rains and flooding in Australia, South-east Asia and Pakistan.
In recent decades, these events have triggered extreme heatwaves, droughts and wildfires and record floods, costing lives, destroying livelihoods andUntil now, scientists had limited understanding of how man-made climate change affected El Nino and La Nina. So, the research team set about trying to better understand how greenhouse gas emissions were affecting El Nino and La Nina and when the impact started to occur.
The team then examined climate simulations over hundreds of years before humans started releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions into the air, mainly from burning fossil fuels and deforestation, and compared these to the simulations after 1960.This analysis showed even more clearly the very strong variability in Enso after 1960 – with variability referring to a departure from the average, Dr Cai and Dr Santoso explained.
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