As a record breaking El Niño continues to grow in the Eastern Pacific, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what may be in store for the next year as we brace for an El Niño “so far above anything we've previously seen, it doesn't even fit on the same axis.”
They don’t talk about it much in this article, but in addition to the destruction of infrastructure, all the saltwater is going to seriously hurt freshwater estuaries and marshes, themselves defending California from climate change, just like has happened to Louisiana.
So in addition to record heat and drought, any place hit by these ocean waters is also going to be fighting a coating of salt.