SCRI executive director Laurie Laybourn was cited by Helsingin Sanomat in a piece marking NOAA’s official confirmation that El Niño has begun - and may turn out to be the strongest on record. The article, built around historian Peter Frankopan’s argument that past El Niños have been a hidden driver of major upheavals (from 18th-century famine in colonial India to the French Revolution and Cold War grain politics), closes with Laurie’s warning that this El Niño risks a “multi-factor perfect storm”
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