Incoming El Niño Is so Extreme It Doesn’t Have a Scientific Name

Daniel Swain has made a name for himself studying the extremes of a warming planet. Fires, floods, droughts, heat, storms: if it’s a record breaker, Swain has probably studied it.  As a weather and climate research scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Swain has dedicated his life to understanding so-called “outlier events” […]