Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read
Nice bit of alarmism here. Guess the author didn’t want the likes of NYMAG and other sources of non-scientific apocalyptic scare-mongering to overshadow his own hysteria. The temperature has dropped after the warm phase ENSO ended in 2016. The fact that a cold phase ENSO did not immediately follow like in 1998 might be somewhat unusual but probably is not unprecedented. We aren’t really in a position to say that it is even very unusual since we don’t have reliable long range records to create a large sample of events to base that on. I am sure you’ll get lots of clicks and lots of OMG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE reactions so congratulations on that, at least.