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PodcastNovember 9, 2023

TILclimate presents: What the heck is El Niño, anyway? (from Outside/In)

    Description

    We were going to produce an episode on El Niño, and its relationship to climate change. And then we found out that Outside/In, from New Hampshire Public Radio, already did that. And they did a really good job. So please enjoy this episode of Outside/In, where you'll learn what El Niño is, how to tell if extreme weather events are caused by climate change or by El Niño, and what the powerful El Niño event of 2023 can tell us about our climate future.

    Outside/In is a production of NHPR, New Hampshire Public Radio, a podcast where curiosity and the natural world collide. In addition to their regular program, they have run special limited series covering issues from the offshore wind industry to lawns and gardens to Canadian hydropower. Learn more at outsideinradio.org.

    Dive Deeper
    • Find this episode on the Outside/In website, accompanied by an explainer with visuals on why El Niño suppresses hurricane formation in the Atlantic, and photos of Kim Cobb’s dives off the coast of Kiritimati Island for her coral/El Niño research.
    • Listen and subscribe to Outside/In.
    • Learn more about El Niño from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:
      • What are El Niño and La Niña?
      • How will climate change change El Niño and La Niña?
    • For an overview of climate change, check out our climate primer: Climate Science and Climate Risk (by Prof. Kerry Emanuel and the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative). 
    • For more episodes of TILclimate by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, visit tilclimate.mit.edu.
    by Ask MIT Climate Podcast
    Topics
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    Atmosphere
    Oceans
    Hurricanes

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