Our only ask of every Climate Week event: whoever holds the microphone gives El Niño two minutes, in their own words. Here are five things worth saying. Say the ones you believe.
NOAA puts the odds at 69% that this becomes the strongest El Niño ever measured. It peaks in December, three months from this week. Hundreds of millions of people will feel it in their power, their water, and their livelihoods.
49 million more people are forecast to go hungry by the end of next year. Indonesia has had more fires this year than any year on record. 2027 is forecast to be the hottest year humans have ever lived through.
Smoke, hunger, disease, and heat kill on a delay, weeks to months after a forecast that already exists. People die when the warning doesn't reach them, when the money arrives after the disaster instead of before, when the plan stays in the drawer.
Warnings reach people, in time and in their language. Money moves early: a dollar of food, water treatment, or backup power staged before the disaster beats a dollar of relief after it. Systems hold: grids, water, and plans that have been rehearsed instead of filed.
Tell someone. If your organization touches power, water, food, health, insurance, or emergency response, ask what it is doing before December, not after. And sign up at elninoready.earth for the forecast and the actions where you live.
Every number above is on the home page with its source. When you've given the two minutes, tell us and your event goes on the list, with your name on it.