3 Charts That Explain El Niño

August 27, 2026 · 6:00 pm 4 sources

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Wires & papers of record

• 3 Charts That Explain El Niño
  The New York Times · August 29, 2026 04:21
  With air and sea surface temperatures already breaking records, this year’s episode is on track to be the strongest in living memory.

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• Climate change is supercharging El Niños, coral records show
  Scientific American · August 27, 2026 18:00
  Fossilized Galápagos corals show clear evidence that today’s El Niños are much stronger than those in the past
• Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years – here’s how my team made the discovery
  This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. · August 27, 2026 18:00
  Scientists went to the heart of the El Niño pattern to learn from living and fossil corals. The results show El Niño’s intensifying coincides with global warming.

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• Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years
  Phys.org · August 28, 2026 22:20
  Temperatures have warmed dramatically across the equatorial Pacific Ocean in 2026, signaling the onset of a strong and potentially historic El Niño. These events can affect weather around the world, and the intensity of recent El Niño events is raising alarm that, as global temperatures rise, they…