El Niño has become more intense over the last 40 years than the previous 1,000

Photo: On Sept. 4, 2019, a loose chain of tropical cyclones lined up across the Western Hemisphere. Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. Article posted by Harrison Tasoff-UC Santa Barbara. Futurity – September 27, 2026. Research article: Science.

An El Niño of historic proportion is taking shape in the tropical Pacific. As a result, water temperatures off Santa Barbara climbed into the low 70s Fahrenheit in late August, and anglers have reported catching dorado and yellowtail around the Channel Islands. The authors of the new research—who examined modern and ancient corals in the Galápagos Islands—found that El Niño events in the last four decades were stronger than in any of the 1,000 years prior to about 1850, when humans began impacting the climate with greenhouse gases. The research appears in the journal Science. […]

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