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El Niño expected to smash heat records in 2024
It could make droughts and fires worse, too.
There’s a 90 percent chance that global average surface temperatures will reach a record high for the year leading up to June 2024, according to new research published today in the journal Scientific Reports. “We have seen that this type of warming can cause a lot of troubles in the world, so we want to give people a heads up,” says Deliang Chen, one of the authors of the new research and a professor in the department of earth sciences at the University of Gothenburg. In the Bay of Bengal, which borders several countries in South and Southeast Asia, El Niño often that can bleach and kill coral reefs that nearby communities rely on for their livelihoods and that provide a buffer against tropical storms.
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