The Coral Canaries of Climate Change A recent study on El Niño's intensification should give us pause.
It confirms our worst fears about climate change's impact, but also highlights a disturbing gap in our understanding of this pressing issue.
For decades, we've relied on surface temperature data from the 1980s to gauge El Niño's severity. But what about the preceding centuries? How did El Ninos behave before industrialization and fossil fuel burning?