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Moving blame away from El Niño for extreme weather
Original: Taking the blame off El Niño
Commentators are pushing back on the habit of attributing recent floods, droughts and heatwaves to El Niño alone. The argument gaining attention is that human-driven climate change is intensifying or worsening many of these events, and pinning everything on the natural Pacific warming pattern risks obscuring the role of greenhouse gas emissions in today's extreme weather.
Why now: Recent extreme weather events are renewing debate over how much to blame on El Niño versus climate change.
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