According to a study released on 26 January 2015 in Nature Climate Change, extreme weather events in the Pacific Ocean will be exacerbated by greenhouse warming and climate change.
Employing a climate modelling analysis, scientists found that future weather patterns are likable to switch between extremes of wet and dry from one year to the next, such as in the cases of El Niño and La Niña.
La Niña and El Niño refer, respectively, to the cold and warm phases of a complex natural climate phenomenon, which arises from variations in ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific.
As per the research, in the coming years the USA will see more droughts while flooding will become more common in the western Pacific.
Furthermore, evidence from the study shows that the frequency of such extreme events will double in the future: from one hazard in every 23 years to one in every 13 years.
