As climate change becomes more and more front and center right now in Paris, the weather pattern called El Nino is also in full swing. Now researchers are investigating a possible link between El Nino and climate change.
CCTV’s Jim Spellman reports. El Nino systems hit every few years when weaker than normal trade winds in the western Pacific allow ocean temperatures to rise. This impacts climate around the world.Severe drought and famine in Africa, raging wildfires and suffocating smoke in Indonesia, and possible floods and heavy snowstorms in the U.S, they are all caused or strengthened by the weather phenomenon known as El Nino, and made more intense, say researchers, by global climate change.Researchers are working to understand how global climate change and El Nino systems may be connected, but research suggests that rising greenhouse gases may be making El Ninos more intense.
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