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Weekend Listen: Is the world prepared for a 'super' El Niño? | Big Take
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33:45Now PlayingThe great famine of the 1870s killed 50 million people – and El Niño was a key driver. Another El Niño phase has just begun and it’s expected to be among the strongest. There are five times as many people in 2026 as there were in the 1870s and the planet is 1.4C hotter. So are we better prepared?
In this weekend's listen, Bloomberg’s Akshat Rathi speaks with Mingfang Ting, professor of climate at Columbia University, about the natural phenomenon and its interaction with human-caused climate change.
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Weekend Listen: Is the world prepared for a 'super' El Niño?
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