||| FROM NEW YORK TIMES |||
A climate monster is growing right now in the Pacific Ocean, perhaps the most fearsome El Niño since before scientists even began modeling them.
The El Niño building right now, and expected to crest around the end of next year, arrives on top of all our global warming.
But for sheer intensity, most scientists agree, the climatological event which began in Pacific waters in 1877 — which the coming El Niño may equal or surpass, remember — stands above the rest.
How much will burn in the 18 months to come? It is still too early to say with confidence.
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