Sydney, Jan 20
The world currently experiences an unusually strong El Nino event every 20 years but according to a new research, this would double to one event every 10 years.
Extreme weather events fuelled by unusually strong El Ninos - such as the 1983 heatwave that led to massive bushfires in Australia - are likely to double in number as our planet warms.
“El Nino events are a multi-dimensional problem and only now we are beginning to understand better how they respond to global warming," said Agus Santoso of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (CoECSS) in Australia.
The team examined 20 climate models that consistently simulate major rainfall reorganisation during extreme El Nino events.
They found a substantial increase in events from the present-day through the next 100 years as the eastern Pacific Ocean warmed in response to global warming.
by;INAS