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El Niño means drought in Australia – and floods in America. Len Matthews

El Niño could mean 2015 is even hotter than last year’s scorcher

James Dyke, University of Southampton

It’s confirmed: 2014 produced the highest global temperatures since records began in the 1880s. As if that’s not cause enough for concern, this year threatens to see the return of El Niño, which like some…
Shark Bay is one of Australia’s 19 World Heritage Areas, home to dolphins, dugongs, and sharks. Matthew Fraser

Climate change threatens Western Australia’s iconic Shark Bay

Matthew Fraser, The University of Western Australia; Gary Kendrick, The University of Western Australia; John Statton, The University of Western Australia; Jordan Thomson, Florida International University, and Michael Heithaus, Florida International University

In the summer of 2010-2011 Western Australia experienced an unprecedented heatwave — but not on land. Between December 2010 and April 2011, sea temperatures off the WA coast reached 3C above average, and…
Australia’s weather is influenced by warm water movements in the Pacific. Flickr/Shayan USA

Explainer: El Niño and La Niña

Jaci Brown, CSIRO

We wait in anticipation of droughts and floods when El Niño and La Niña are forecast but what are these climatic events? The simplest way to understand El Niño and La Niña is through the sloshing around…
You can blink, you won’t miss it. Climate change is here for good. rudecactus

Global warming is here to stay, whichever way you look at it

Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Has global warming stalled? This question is increasingly being asked because the local weather seems cool and wet, or because the global mean temperature is not increasing at its earlier rate or the long-term…
Flood waters ravaged Toowoomba, in Queensland, in January 2011. AAP/Keira Lappin

2011 to be remembered as the year of extreme weather

Justin Norrie, The Conversation

Severe droughts, floods and landslides devastated parts of the world last year as carbon dioxide concentrations climbed to the highest levels in recorded history, according to a global report on climate…

Related Topics

  1. Climate
  2. Climate change
  3. Drought
  4. El Nino
  5. El Niño Southern Oscillation
  6. ENSO
  7. Flooding
  8. Floods
  9. Pacific Ocean
  10. Weather

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