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Scientists at The Earth Institute of Columbia University, having analyzed data from 1950 to 2004, suggest ENSO may have had a role in 21% of all civil conflicts since 1950, with the risk of annual civil conflict doubling from 3% to 6% in countries affected by ENSO during El Niño years relative to La Niña years.
The El Niño event also contributed to the Earth's warming trend, with 2014 and 2015 being two of the warmest years on record. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Over 60 million people faced hunger and malnutrition in 2016 due to drought effects influenced by ENSO, with Africa worst hit, Indochina faced a severe drop in food production, and Ethiopia counted ...
El Niño is a natural climate event caused by the Southern Oscillation, popularly known as El Niño or also in meteorological circles as El Niño-Southern Oscillation or ENSO, [6] through which global warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean results in the development of unusually warm waters between the coast of South America and the ...
An SUV sits buried by a mudslide on Feb. 5, 2024, in the Beverly Crest area of Los Angeles. El Niño has a strong linkage to a wetter winter in California like what happened this year.
El Niño and La Niña greatly affect weather conditions worldwide. The last El Niño was in 2018-2019. ... “We expect a good, nice El Niño to come back after a few years of La Niña,” stated ...
The 2009-2010 winter was the last with an El Niño of the same forecast strength as this year. It was quite cold across the southern and central US and very wet and snowy along the East Coast ...
Surface temperatures in 1998 were enhanced by the major 1997–1998 El Niño but no such strong anomaly was present in 2005. Eleven of the last 12 years (1995 to 2006) – the exception being 1996 – rank among the 12 warmest years on record since 1850."
It’s an extremely rare occurrence to happen three years in a row, Cullen said, with the only two times it’s happened since records began in 1949 being from 1973 to 1976 and 1998 to 2001.