Illustration image. Luca Bruno / AP
Meteorologists face increased hatred from climate deniers
Employees at Spain's Meteorological Institute have been subjected to hate and threats from people who claim they are lying about the weather, writes AFP.
Among other things, they have been accused of being behind the drought they reported on, and climate deniers in Australia and France have accused their counterparts of manipulating thermometers and deliberately misplacing measuring stations in order to exaggerate climate change.
Communication scientist Alexandre Lopez-Borrull says that meteorologists are attacked because they are seen by climate deniers as part of the "establishment".
- They have evidence that contradicts what climate deniers claim, so they try to discredit them.
Image from rain-hit California, 2016. Joel Angel Juárez / Ap
Forecast: El Niño returns and will remain for a long time
Increasingly, there is evidence that El Niño will return within a couple of months, and there are many indications that the climate phenomenon will then remain for the rest of the year, according to the US weather agency, according to CBS News.
The phenomenon usually returns with an interval of between two and seven years and brings extreme weather events, often in the form of heavy rainfall in Latin America, winter storms in North America and drought in parts of Asia.
The surface waters of the world's oceans have reached record-breaking temperatures during the spring, which is described as a contributing factor to the phenomenon occurring.
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