ClickOnDetroit · October 15, 2026

Study Finds Climate Change and El Niño Combined to Intensify Hurricane Polo, With Warming the Larger Factor, AP Reports

• A new study finds that climate change and El Niño combined to intensify last month's Hurricane Polo, which the report describes as the longest-lasting Category 5 storm in the Pacific, according to the Associated Press report.
• The study attributed a larger share of the intensification to human-caused warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas than to El Niño, according to the report.

Study findings as reported by the Associated Press. Card based on the accessible portion only. Original headline: "Study says global warming did more than El Niño to turbocharge Hurricane Polo".