This year's El Niño is «significant and strengthening,» and could rival the record 1997 version that
caused weather calamities across the planet, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center said.
A ClimateWire investigation into the origins of the flood disaster uncovered evidence that points to a
calamity caused by man, the cumulative effect of erratic
weather forecast by climate change models, massive deforestation, and lax attention to infrastructure maintenance and engineering standards.