Scientists are still untangling the complex relationship between El Niño and human-driven warming, but their confluence has major implications for extreme weather and global temperatures.

Many record-hot years — including 1998, 2010, 2016, 2023 and 2024 — followed major El Nino events or developed alongside them.

Scientists are still untangling the complex relationship between El Niño and human-driven warming, but their confluence has major implications for extreme weather and global…