El Niño, decreases rainfall in the same region while warming other parts of the world, including parts of Canada. And in an already warming world, El Niño can increase global temperatures.

Blame El Niño!" A luxury home in the Orange County suburb of Laguna Niguel slips down a hillside eroded by heavy El Nino-generated rains, on March 19, 1998. (Vince Bucci/AFP/Getty Images) ...

NASA says that human carbon emissions drive the long-term trend of rising temperatures. El Niño, aerosols, pollution and volcanic eruptions can affect temperatures on a year-to-year basis.

Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, has given it a less enthusiastic nickname. "This is the Godzilla El Nino," Patzert says.

NASA/JPL-Caltech While the effects of El Niño are already being felt around the globe, we haven’t seen the end of it, NASA scientists say. READ MORE: El Nino: What it is and why it matters ...

Our rating: False This is wrong on multiple fronts. June 2023 was the hottest June on record, according to NASA. And human greenhouse gas emissions drive modern global warming. There is no mechanism ...

Recently, NASA has been tracking the El Niño event, which began in 2023 and had its biggest effects through the end of 2023 and into the early months of 2024. This year's event kicked off with ...

A quick crash course in a teleconnection, as the name implies: one piece of weather phenomena impacts others in different ...

In a significant breakthrough, scientists from Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have revealed how the El Niño phenomenon influences the saltiness, or salinity, of coastal waters around ...

NASA said that the full effects of El Nino may not be felt in North America until early 2016, warning that we may not have seen the "peak" of the still-growing weather phenomenon.

A new NASA visualization shows the 2015 El Nino unfolding in the Pacific Ocean, as sea surface temperatures create different patterns than seen in the 1997-1998 El Nino.