Study: El Niño Events in Recent Decades Are The Strongest in 1,000 Years
The Spin
Climate-concerned narrative
Coral records from the Galápagos make it clear — El Niño events are stronger now than at any point in the past 1,000 years, and human-caused warming is driving that shift. Stronger El Niños mean more devastating droughts, floods and economic losses, and the world needs to start preparing for that reality.
Climate-skeptic narrative
The conflation of El Niño variability and climate alarmism is reaching absurd levels of discourse. There needs to be a much more vigorous challenging of climate activist science and "journalism" in the public arena.
Narrative C
The Galápagos coral study is interesting data, but the leap to blaming human warming is a stretch the evidence doesn't fully support. The IPCC itself concluded there is no consensus from models on a systematic change in El Niño sea surface temperature variability, and large model ensembles found no historical trends distinguishable from internal variability.