El Niño and Climate Change: Wild Weather May Get Wilder

By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360

This year’s El Niño phenomenon is spawning extreme weather around the planet. Now scientists are working to understand if global warming will lead to more powerful El Niños that will make droughts, floods, snowstorms, and hurricanes more intense.

Video and charts make clear the planet is still warming — and there’s only one way to stop it

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress

[O]nce the short-term warming and cooling influences of volcanic eruptions, solar activity, and El Niño and La Niña events are statistically removed from the temperature record, there is no evidence of a change in the rate of greenhouse warming.