A new study reports that El Niño events are becoming stronger, with one outlet citing an estimate that climate change has increased El Niño strength by about 36%. The findings link El Niño intensification to human-caused climate change and describe El Niño as the natural pattern that can drive spikes in global temperatures.
The outlets broadly agree on the core conclusion: over recent decades, including roughly the past 40 years, El Niño events show signs of increasing intensity. They characterize the relationship as climate change amplifying El Niño rather than creating it outright. One report frames the results as “super El Niño” strengthening, while another emphasizes the quantitative estimate of increased strength.
While headlines differ in wording—some foreground the “super El Niño” framing and others focus on the measured percentage increase—all sources present the study as evidence of a growing trend toward more intense El Niño conditions under a warming climate.
