Why the phrase ‘Super El Niño’ makes Australian climate scientists roll their eyes
- Written by Kimberley Reid, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Raymond Petrik/Pexels, CC BY-NC-NDFrightening headlines predicting a Super El Niño or even a Godzilla El Niño amp up anxiety levels for farmers and residents of bushfire-prone regions.
But these phrases are not particularly accurate. The phrase “Super El Niño” makes climate scientists like me roll our eyes.
Why?...
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