RAZOR - The Super El Niño & Climate change
As climate systems grow increasingly volatile across the globe, one phenomenon continues to drive extreme weather on a planetary scale: El Niño. El Niño is a periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean that disrupts global weather systems, often triggering extreme events including floods, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, crop failures and economic instability around the world. Early forecasts this year point to it being one of the worst yet, with many calling it a "Super El Niño."
In this RAZOR: Conversations, Neil Cairns explores the upcoming El Niño event through the perspective of one of the world's leading climate scientists, Professor Adam Scaife. The conversation explores why El Niño develops, why this cycle matters more than ever in a warming world and what scientists are now seeing in the data. El Niño typically brings stormier, wetter weather to the southern coasts of North and South America, the Horn of Africa and China, raising the risk of flooding. Its disastrous effects can continue even after El Niño has peaked.
Also discussed is this year's extreme weather. So far in 2026, the UK and Europe have experienced historic, record-breaking weather patterns. The year has been defined by a succession of extreme heat waves, and 14,000 people may have died as a result of the unprecedented temperatures in early summer.
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Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:38 - The heat wave so far 1:32 – Average temperatures exponential rise 3:25 - Why is Europe warming faster than average? 6:10 – Climate change 8:12 - Long term forecasting 9:40 - Isn't it natural warming? 12:06 - Witnessing climate change 14:04 - Intro Super El Nino 15:35 - What causes the El Nino 17:20 - Impacts of El Nino 18:38 - El Nino has arrived 19.35 - How did Peruvian fishermen predict El Nino? 21:31 - How often does an El Nino happen? 23:27 – El Nino makes the day longer 26:04 - El Nino increases flood risk the following year
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