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| Even Australia's national fauna will struggle to live with the predicted 'Godzilla El Nino'. |
his year's rapid
warming in the central and eastern Pacific has climate watchers comparing the
event to the monster El Nino of 1997-98 that led to a spike in global
temperatures.
William Patzert, a climatologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in California, told The New
York Times that many of the factors were in place for a big event, with
ocean warming "that rivals what we saw with the great Godzilla El Nino of
1997 and 1998." (See comparison below compiled by the Los Angeles Times).
The comments come as another US agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, overnight said the latest readings
"reflect a significant and strengthening El Nino". There is an 85 per
cent chance the event will last into the early northern spring of 2016, NOAA
said.
Read the story by Peter Hannam in today’s Age - “'Great Godzilla' of an El Nino likely to linger well into 2016, agencies say.”
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