franceinfo junior. What is the El Niño phenomenon?

In franceinfo junior this Wednesday, we talk about the return of the El Niño phenomenon with a climatologist and children’s questions.

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The first week of July was the hottest on record, global warming is at work but the El Niño phenomenon is also playing its part. Ihe UN also called, on Tuesday 4 July, on governments to anticipate the consequences of the El Niño weather phenomenonwhich has just started and is generally associated with a rise in global temperatures.

We talk about it in franceinfo junior with David Faranda, climatologist at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). The specialist is interviewed on the show by CM2 students from the Louise Michel school in Vigneux-sur-Seine (Essonne).

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“Did El Niño land for the first time in Mexico? Because the name makes you think of a Mexican” Naïm asks at the microphone. “How long does he stay and how many times a year does he come?” Babacar also asks. The schoolboy also wants to know if this phenomenon can “cause winds like storms”. Then comes a balance sheet question with Enzo: “Does that mean millions of deaths?” asks the young interviewer.

On this page, re-listen in full to this franceinfo junior program on the El Niño phenomenon.


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