El Niño events are about 36 percent stronger than they were before industrialisation. And this trend has accelerated over the past four decades.
This is according to a new study, which was published on Thursday in the scientific journal Science.
The research results come at a time when this year's El Niño is predicted to be the strongest ever measured in the coming months.
El Niño, which occurs on average every two to seven years, warms surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean, leading to more extreme weather events, often with droughts in some parts of the world and floods in others.
