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General Mar 23, 2026 at 4:05 PM

UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms

Posted by DoxFreePanda

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c203rdxkezwo
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sgt_cookie Mar 23, 2026 +117
That's the warm phase. For anyone that doesn't know off the top of their head.
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iNfANTcOMA_0 Mar 23, 2026 +24
It's about time the Water Wars start popping off
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invalidpassword Mar 23, 2026 +68
Yet Trump chants, "Drill Baby, Drill!". Maybe we're not the reason for global warming, but we'd sure better work on a way to slow it down. Trump denies it even exists and, if anything, is making it worse.
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Ackerack Mar 23, 2026 +50
Almost everyone who denies its existence absolutely knows it exists and just wants to maximize profits because they’ll be dead before it’s a problem. Then there’s the really, *really* dumb people who actually don’t believe it, but I’d wager 90% of the deniers are the former type.
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weasel5134 Mar 25, 2026 +1
When I was a wee lad, young and dumb and lacking in foresight. I thought global warming was a good thing because I hated winter.
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lafarda Mar 23, 2026 +15
He "denies" climate change while planning for arctic ship routes that will pass by Greenland when climate change is fed enough to clear the waters.
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invalidpassword Mar 24, 2026 +4
Never one to pass up an opportunity to profit is he.
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bodhidharma132001 Mar 23, 2026 +11
I'm sure all the wars aren't helping
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TiberiusCornelius Mar 23, 2026 +10
On the one hand war does demonstrably increase global emissions On the other hand they're currently busy bombing a bunch of each other's fossil fuel infrastructure so maybe it's a wash
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TrainingJellyfish643 Mar 24, 2026 +3
We definitely are the reason for it lol there is absolutely no doubt
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invalidpassword Mar 24, 2026 +2
I was as just trying to avoid someone going on an "It warms and cools in cycles" rant. Yes, there are cycles but millennia long, not mere centuries or as it seems, decades.
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igloomaster Mar 23, 2026 +25
The same government that cancelled a wind farm to invest in gas lol
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TheSamurabbi Mar 23, 2026 +54
Chris Farley taught me about El Niño.
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qlurp Mar 23, 2026 +15
First thing that pops into my head any time “El Nino” is mentioned, even all these years later. 
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nebrivor1 Mar 23, 2026 +15
The Nino
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NoDaddyNotTheBelt25 Mar 23, 2026 +19
For those that don’t habla espanola, El Niño stands for…The Niño.
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YodaForceGhost Mar 23, 2026 +47
“Yay! More boys!” - The White House
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Obvious-Train9746 Mar 23, 2026 +4
This one made me laugh
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Candid_Koala_3602 Mar 23, 2026 +32
For those of you who don't habla español, El Niño is Spanish for... The Niño!".
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DoxFreePanda Mar 23, 2026 +1
Thanks Captain! 🫡
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hondactx16i Mar 23, 2026 +49
"We are all cooked." Saved u a read.
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DoxFreePanda Mar 23, 2026 +11
Like medium rare, well done, or extra crispy though?
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PrinceMorganti Mar 23, 2026 +9
Sous vide, obviously.  All that warm water... Mmm
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iseemountains Mar 24, 2026 +7
So we're having a go of it in Colorado, lowest snowpack on record, resorts closing... now, water restrictions in place, etc... and to shine the light at the end of the tunnel, local forecasters are already talking about El nino- for us it's kind of the light at the end of the tunnel. La Nina, cool elsewhere has also provided us record heat over the last week. We had highs in the 80s last week, in CO, in March... Not only are they talking about El Nino, but they're not calling it a super El Nino, they're calling it a Godzilla El Nino. For us and the rest of the southwest, it's going to bring critically and desperately needed moisture.
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wip30ut Mar 23, 2026 +3
SoCal peeps better get their rafts & canoes ready! Now would be a good time for enterprising contractors to buy up K rails for installation/rental in hillside communities next winter.
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minionoperation Mar 24, 2026 +3
Have no fear, the fema director can teleport at whim to trouble.
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Slypenslyde Mar 23, 2026 +7
Calling it "El Niño" just helps the people who argue this is all completely natural and nothing any human is or could be doing could affect it in any way whatsoever. Coincidentally they're also the people with homes in multiple countries who are most prepared for disasters.
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TimothyMimeslayer Mar 23, 2026 +16
El Nino is natural.
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Slypenslyde Mar 23, 2026 +7
Yes, but my observation the last time I had an unprecedented summer that did the opposite of the El Niño forecast was they defined it as when the ocean within a specific band of latitudes is warmer than "normal". My observation at the time was the whole damn ocean was warmer than "normal" so the observed weather phenomenon might not match the historical prediction. That's where I sit again. *Technically* the criteria for El Niño is met, but there are a lot of other climate-affecting markers that are in unexplored territory. I'm not sure historical data's going to help us here and pretending we're still in the easily-predictable realm feels like it's meant to placate people.
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road_chewer Mar 23, 2026 +6
It absolutely still helps predictions because we know where the tongue of warm water is. Because it’s relative to the rest of the ocean, it still effects circulations elsewhere. I also can’t really say weather has ever been easily predictable. It’s just so unexact and random.
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Slypenslyde Mar 23, 2026 -1
What about when it's not "a tongue of warm water" but "an entire ocean above the average"? This is exactly the kind of circling I'm talking about. Trying to find a way to explain why extreme weather we didn't see coming is ackshually normal is bullshit designed to placate people.
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road_chewer Mar 23, 2026 +4
I get where you’re coming from. I’m a meteorologist too, so I don’t like to see the data and the challenges it presents to weather forecasting.
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PhaedrusC Mar 24, 2026 +1
I've been watching the ENSO data for more than 25 years. Everything I've seen in the last months points to the current La Nina continuing for some time. Oh and by the way, they've been predicting a transition to El Nino since October of last year. I was skeptical then, it still hasn't happened, I'm still skeptical
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millanstar Mar 23, 2026 +1
...So I shouldnt really be worried about buying a house?
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DoxFreePanda Mar 23, 2026 +6
If you buy one by the ocean you get a free upgrade to a boat house. House may or may not float. Self-reaasembly required.
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MrCirrus Mar 23, 2026 -1
I had the thought the other day that the current hurry-up and all out AI push is a sort of Tech Bro Hail Mary to try to quickly find a climate solution before, like you say, we are “cooked”.
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KimJongEen Mar 23, 2026 +24
If tech bros actually gave af about the climate, we would see much more drastic action. We have climate solutions, just no will to act on them.
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ObiShaneKenobi Mar 24, 2026 +1
Yea AI could solve climate change right now. They really want a magic solution that doesn’t actually address the reason we are here.
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Tuesday_6PM Mar 23, 2026 +4
They’d have to be dumb as shit to think massively increasing energy expenditure was a good strategy to “solve” global warming, rather than implementing a vast array of known technologies and infrastructure improvements (green energy, mass transit, energy efficiency), investing in further green technologies, and/or lobbying for stricter environmental regulations Edit: which is to say, you may be right
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PrizeFront8677 Mar 24, 2026 -2
Scientists, and their never ending quest to procure a meaningful analogy for human caused global warming. Keep trying guys, one of these days, you'll hit the right set of words that will "really" get the people thinking, fingers crossed.
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Sevastarion Mar 23, 2026 -19
Cow farts are out of control again?
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Joe18067 Mar 23, 2026 +7
That's just another distraction from all the carbon that the wars are releasing into the atmosphere.
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Ok_Act_5321 Mar 24, 2026 +1
no its not, anyone who says that just doesn't want any inconvenience for himself.
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YouDotty Mar 25, 2026 +1
Could be all those data centres sprouting up all over the place. Just look at the c***-shoot Musk built.
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Dense-Perspective Mar 23, 2026 -9
Chemtrails keeping the heat in? Maybe just stop weather modifications? Maybe make one of those futurama solar reflectors?
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Neat-Flower8067 Mar 23, 2026 +3
They should just put all the heat in a bottle and shoot it out into space. Problem solved. Man scientists are stupid lol 
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talligan Mar 23, 2026 +5
air conditioners put out cold air on one side, and hot air on the other. Right now we put all the heat outside to warm up the climate. Just flip the air conditioners around to cool the outside. Can't believe no one has thought of that yet
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M16iata Mar 23, 2026 +2
We just have to mine a huge ice cube from Haley’s comet and drop it in the ocean
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