
Oregon State climatologist Larry O'Neill talks El Niño, wildfire, climate change
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The Concerns About El Nino
There's signs we're going to head into El Nino. There have been pretty dire predictions about what that means, particularly for warmer than normal temperatures in winter. The ocean actually stores a lot of the energy from the sun and greenhouse gases. And so during El Nino's, we get a large release of heat from the ocean into the atmosphere.
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