Super El Niño

TUESDAY, MAY 19
PROGRAM #11143 11:00 AM PT

Super El Niño. 

North America’s “danger season” is underway, marked by heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods intensified by climate change. This year arrives on the heels of three consecutive years of record-breaking temperatures and dozens of climate disasters. Adding to the alarm: warnings of a “Super El Niño” that could worsen further in the face of the Trump administration’s climate denial policies. How severe is this weather phenomenon expected to be? How could it affect communities along the Colorado and Mississippi river basins, already battered by the crisis? And how are these communities preparing for the possibility of disaster?

Guest: Kelly Núñez Ocasio, Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX; Rosy Luna Niño, Researcher, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, San Diego, CA; Moisés Méndez, Member Por la Creación, Hispanic Access Foundation, Chicago, IL; Camila Cáceres, Water Equity and Oceans Program Advocate, GreenLatinos, San Francisco, CA.

Photo: National Ocean Service/Facebook

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