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Environment
Wenju Cai, Chief Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, CSIRO

New study helps solve a 30-year-old puzzle: how is climate change affecting El Niño and La Niña?

Human-caused greenhouse gas emissions mean strong El Niño and La Niña events are occurring more often, according to our new research, which provides important new evidence of the human fingerprint on Earth’s climate.

For more than 30 years, climate researchers have puzzled over the link between human-caused climate change and El Niño and La Niña events. We set out to bridge this knowledge gap.

Climate scientists have long observed a correlation between climate change impacts on our oceans and atmosphere, and the increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.

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