WMO confirm El Niño high likelihood: comment

"With global food supplies already under heavy strain from climate change and strangled off fertiliser supply flows in the Strait of Hormuz, confirmation of El Niño is bad news. It will turbocharge climate change by adding more heat to natural systems, further disrupting weather, and intensifying already dangerous extremes in many parts of the world. We import two fifths of our food in the UK, and with three of the worst harvests in England in the last five years, food prices are already on track to be 50% higher by November than they were five years ago [2]. But in many poorer parts of the world, the havoc El Niño will wreak as it likely delivers another hottest year, in 2027, will be devastating for many farmers, and a question of life or death for far too many people.
 
"Six months out from the next UN climate summit, with countries soon to meet in Bonn to plan Türkiye-hosted COP31, the message couldn’t be starker. Amidst the second fossil fuel crisis in five years, the solution being opted for by many nations to cut costs for consumers and build security into energy systems is to speed the transition to net zero; which is also the only solution that can halt climate change and limit these growing threats to food supplies, economic wellbeing, and lives around the world."