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In a new explainer, @sciencefeedback.bsky.social breaks down what El Niño actually is, how it overlaps with human‑caused climate change, and how that confusion is exploited in climate misinformation.
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2026’s El Niño may bring storms, heatwaves – and misinformation
El Niño doesn’t cause climate change, so why do people claim it does?
![Andrew Dessler, director of the Texas Center for Extreme Weather at Texas A&M University, said the new controversy that the Trump administration had stirred around climate science was a fitting subject for a fast-track effort by the National Academies.
“The National Academies [were] established exactly to do things like this—to answer questions of scientific importance for the government,” he said. “This is what the DOE should have done all along, rather than hire five people who represent a tiny minority of the scientific community and have views that virtually nobody else agrees with.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uyemf6niinxjzirk7pbzzt3j/bafkreifnvpttyaxod2ph6vreng4vhllbzg45xhfklbuvw7asa6k5eki4by)
