Scientists have warned the impacts of El Niño — combined with human-induced global warming — will likely stretch beyond the weather. Scientists warned that El Niño, coming in addition to already dire global warming, could make the situation worse. An El Niño in 1998 was linked to a major malaria epidemic in the Kenyan Highlands. Impacts from both El Niño and global warming were “projected to cause $84 trillion in 21st-century economic losses”, it said. However researchers at Oxford Economics have argued against these projections, calling El Niño a “new risk, but not a gamechanger”.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 12, 2023 08:35 UTC