ANALYSIS: Over the past few weeks, climate records have shattered across the globe. So what's going on with the climate, and why are we seeing all these records tumbling at once? asks Kimberley Reid.
El Niño doesn't create extra heat but redistributes the existing heat from the ocean to the atmosphere.
Higher than usual ocean temperatures along the equator were recorded in the first 400m of the Pacific Ocean throughout June 2023. Since cold water is more dense than warm water, this layer of warm water prevents colder ocean waters from penetrating to the surface. Warm ocean waters over the Pacific also lead to increased thunderstorms, which further release more heat into the atmosphere via a process called latent heating.
Aerosols are small particles that can deflect incoming solar radiation. Pumping aerosols into the stratosphere is one of the potential geoengineering methods that humanity could invoke to lessen the impacts of global warming. Although stopping greenhouse gas emissions would be much better. This prediction reflected the developing El Niño. That probability is likely higher now, since El Niño has developed.
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