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Adam Sobel says ‘super El Niño’ label is arbitrary; current event may be biggest
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The Biggest El Niño in Recorded History
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""It's, you know, it's an arbitrary threshold. It's not like something radically different happens at 2.1 versus 1.9 right degrees. But um this one is forecast to be possibly the biggest one in since we have modern data.""
Columbia climate scientist Adam Sobel says the ‘super El Niño’ label uses an arbitrary sea-surface temperature threshold, not a sharp physical shift. He says forecasts suggest the current El Niño could be the biggest since modern observational data began.
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- Adam Sobel · guest
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- The Biggest El Niño in Recorded History
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