Record El Niño, hunger feared

Reposted by Benjamin I. Cook, Neil Pederson, Valerie M. Delmotte , and 2 more Benjamin I. Cook, Neil Pederson, Valerie M. Delmotte, John Kennedy, Juan Rocha

103%

Scholar power: 103.7%

Story's scientific field profile

Environmental science 38%, Agriculture 24%, Economics 19%, Public Health 19%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Benjamin I. Cook	31%	72	26.3%
🎓 Neil Pederson	32%	54	23.5%
🎓 Valerie M. Delmotte	23%	102	23.2%
🎓 John Kennedy	23%	53	16.7%
🎓 Juan Rocha	29%	23	13.9%
Total			103.7%

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Scholar power

57.0%

530.2 h

70

103.7%

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0.01

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

Tim Osborn

@timosbornclim.bsky.social

I’ve updated the long-running (starts 1866) CRU Southern Oscillation Index (SOI). This lets us compare the currently developing El Niño with earlier events including 1877-78.

2026 has developed very quickly, similar to the 1997-98 one.

Thick line is 3-month running mean, with y-axis reversed.

1866-present timeseries of Climatic Research Unit SOI with some major El Niño events marked.

September 24, 2026 at 4:18 PM

by Jingfeng Xiao

96%

Scholar power: 96.1%

Story's scientific field profile

Environmental science 38%, Agriculture 24%, Economics 19%, Public Health 19%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Jingfeng Xiao	38%	71	96.1%

Formula for scholar power: 3 × author's field match × √author's h-index

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Scholar power

47.0%

524.2 h

0

96.1%

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0.002

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

by Raghu Murtugudde

61%

Scholar power: 61.4%

Story's scientific field profile

Environmental science 38%, Agriculture 24%, Economics 19%, Public Health 19%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Raghu Murtugudde	25%	67	61.4%

Formula for scholar power: 3 × author's field match × √author's h-index

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Scholar power

53.0%

540.8 h

0

61.4%

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0.002

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

by Elizabeth Robinson

52%

Scholar power: 52.9%

Story's scientific field profile

Environmental science 38%, Agriculture 24%, Economics 19%, Public Health 19%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Elizabeth Robinson	26%	46	52.9%

Formula for scholar power: 3 × author's field match × √author's h-index

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Scholar power

45.0%

538.0 h

14

52.9%

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0.002

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson

@profejzrobinson.bsky.social

Thanks to @fionaharvey.bsky.social for this article, and the reminder that the Starmer government suppressed the report. Not too late to act on food security, but would have been better without the delay …

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