RAZOR - The Super El Niño & Climate change
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As climate systems grow increasingly volatile across the globe, one phenomenon continues to drive extreme weather on a planetary scale: El Niño. El Niño is a periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean that disrupts global weather systems, often triggering extreme events including floods, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, crop failures and economic instability around the world. Early forecasts this year point to it being one of the worst yet, with many calling it a "Super El Niño." In this RAZOR: Conversations, Neil Cairns explores the upcoming El Niño event through the perspective of one of the world's leading climate scientists, Professor Adam Scaife. The conversation explores why El Niño develops, why this cycle matters more than ever in a warming world and what scientists are now seeing in the data. El Niño typically brings stormier, wetter weather to the southern coasts of North and South America, the Horn of Africa and China, raising the risk of flooding. Its disastrous effects can con
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