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La Niña-like conditions associated with 2,500-year-long shutdown of coral reef growth

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Panamá reef
Mercury ID
381051
Feb 23, 2015

A new study has found that La Niña-like conditions in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Panamá were closely associated with an abrupt shutdown in coral reef growth that lasted 2,500 years.

Looking at El Nino’s past to predict its future

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El nino peak warming
Mercury ID
350951
Dec 02, 2014

A new study shows how this climate system responds to various pressures, such as changes in carbon dioxide and ice cover, in one of the best models used to project future climate change.

El Nino Swings More Violently in the Industrial Age, Hard Evidence Says

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El Nino globe images 1997 and 2015
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629307
Nov 25, 2019

Hard evidence now says: El Nino and the climate phenomenon that drives it have become more extreme in the industrial age.

Volcanic Activity Does Not Contribute to El Ninos, Hard Evidence Says

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El Nino globe images 1997 and 2015
Mercury ID
629307
May 19, 2020

Physical evidence has spoken, and it clearly says that volcanic activity does not push El Nino and La Nina events.

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