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As El Niño Approaches, Scientists Predict Fierce Heatwaves, Wildfires and Floods

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Emerging Pacific Ocean heat, combined with ongoing human-caused global warming, is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes. Heat alone already kills more than 500,000 annually.

By Bob Berwyn

Scientists said this week that a developing El Niño is likely to amplify heatwaves, droughts and floods this year, but warned that the long-term warming caused by burning fossil fuels remains the main driver of climate extremes.

As El Niño Approaches, Scientists Predict Fierce Heatwaves, Wildfires and Floods
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