evidence: The naturally-occurring El Niño event, which helped fuel a spike in global temperatures and extreme weather events around the world from 2023 to 2024, is showing signs of ending, according to an update from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). [...] Mark Ruffalo rows in on Irish politics, saying Green Party ‘about to do something really terrible to the environment’ "Every month since June 2023 has set a new temperature record – and 2023 was by far the warmest year on record. The end of El Niño does not mean a pause in long-term climate change as our planet will continue to warm due to heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Exceptionally high sea surface temperatures will continue to play an important role during the next months," said WMO deputy secretary general Ko Barrett. The past nine years have been the warmest on record even with the cooling influence of a multiyear La Niña from 2020 to early 2023. El Niño peaked in December 2023 as one of the five strongest on record.