• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    nothing. it’s a thing that occurs every few years as part of the weather cycle.

    don’t let all the doomer idiots tell you it means anything. el nino/la nina is just a name for cyclical changes in average water temperatures that affect weather patterns.

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      6 hours ago

      The word “dreaded” may be a bit much, but this one could be very bad for a lot of people. Extended droughts, extreme heat waves, etc. basically all the bad stuff we normally have but on niño steroids plus on climate change steroids.

      Saying it’s nothing is naive at best