{"id":444888,"date":"2026-05-17T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=444888"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:08:24","slug":"claim-the-coming-el-nino-global-warming-may-kill-50-million-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=444888","title":{"rendered":"Claim: The Coming El Nino Global Warming may Kill 50 Million People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beware the horror of temperatures a few degrees warmer than normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last Time an El Ni\u00f1o Was This Bad, It Killed 50 Million People<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was arguably the worst environmental disaster to ever befall humanity.\u201d
By Joe Wilkins<\/a>
Published May 14, 2026 8:57 AM EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if oil shortages<\/a>, perpetual wars<\/a>, and the existential angst of AI<\/a> weren\u2019t stressful enough, there\u2019s an El Ni\u00f1o brewing \u2014 and it\u2019s looking like it\u2019ll be one of the most severe in over a century.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To find a historical equivalent, scientists have had to reach all the way back to 1877, when a merciless El Ni\u00f1o unleashed death on a scale few events can rival. Per the WSJ<\/em>, the catastrophe fueled ongoing droughts, culminating in a global famine that killed at least 50 million people, though some estimates<\/a> peg the loss of life at an even more horrifying 60 million \u2014 around 3 percent on the total population on Earth at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As climate researchers wrote in a 2018 study<\/a> of the famine: \u201cit was arguably the worst environmental disaster to ever befall humanity and one of the worst calamities of any sort in at least the last 150 years, with a loss of life comparable to the World Wars and the influenza epidemic of 1918\/19.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/futurism.com\/science-energy\/el-nino-killed-50-million<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sadly the coming global catastrophe is unlikely to interrupt the ability of climate whiners to pen ridiculous articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There may be a food crisis brewing, but it has nothing to do with climate change or El Nino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While President Trump\u2019s policies have ensured energy self sufficiency in the USA, except in California, climate obsessed places like Australia and Europe, whose reality challenged leaders thought we could live without fossil fuel energy security, experienced such severe price and availability problems, farmers in affected countries were struggling to plant or harvest crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the Aussie crop sowing crisis earlier this year, Australian fuel prices have stabilised for now, after Prime Minister Albanese suggested to the Sultan of Brunei that a failure to deliver fuel might be met with a failure to deliver food<\/a>. But we won\u2019t know how much impact the high costs over the last few months have impacted crop sowing decisions and food prices until later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parts of Africa which are normally self sufficient may be in even worse shape because of their vulnerable fuel supply chains, though hard data on the situation in Africa is difficult to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 1877\u201378 event was indeed one of history’s worst climate-related disasters. Comparing it to today serves as a warning about risks to food security, vulnerable populations, and the need for preparedness. 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