Guest Willianlau Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Some of the worst El Niños, the infamous climate patterns that shake up weather around the world, could double in frequency in upcoming decades due to global warming, says a new study out Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. During an El Niño, water temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean tend to be warmer-than-average for an extended period of time – typically at least three to five months. This warm water brings about significant changes in global weather patterns. The most powerful El Niños – such as the ones that developed in 1982-83 and 1997-98 – are forecast to occur once every 10 years throughout the rest of this century, according to study lead author Wenju Cai of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science agency. Over the past 100 years or so, however these "extreme" El Niños occurred only once every 20 years, he said. This means that the extreme weather events fueled by El Niños – such as droughts and wildfires in Australia, floods in South America and powerful rainstorms along the U.S. West Coast – will occur more often. The most recent El Niño ended in 2010. The research results came from an aggregation of 20 climate models, which were used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoogleViper Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Do you have a pair of El Niños in a size 10? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wii Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Wasn't Torres known as El Nino? I hear he's dead. Well he might as well be for all he does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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