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El Niño brings even more heat and extremes
24 Aug 2023
"Strong El Niño events can cost tens of thousands of human lives, and the water scarcity in the affected regions affects millions of people."
El Niño has nothing much to do with the climate crisis in the first instance. “The regular alternation between El Niño and its counterpart La Niña are natural fluctuations in the climate system,” says Professor Thomas Birner from LMU’s Meteorological Insitute. We should not confound the natural fluctuations with human-made climate change.