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El Niño is coming, at the worst possible time

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Introduction

The UN's World Meteorological Organisation declared this week that the extreme weather event has begun. The impacts will be felt across our health, ecosystems and economy. During these events, we tend to see an increased risk of things like heatwaves, bushfires, and drought over much of the country. We've basically won the planet 1.2 degrees above pre-industrial levels. El Nino is the largest source of year-to-year climate variability on the planet.

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