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Emergency rescue teams assist residents during severe flooding in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This El Niño, like the last, is just responding to the heating we have caused, writes Gwynne Dyer. Pexels photograph by Juan Moccagatta

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 7, 2026

LONDON, U.K.—“El Niño is being supersized before our eyes,” said United Nations Secretary General António Guterres. “The science leaves no room for doubt: the planet is in uncharted waters, and those waters are heating up. The world is in the danger zone of extreme...

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