evidence: The powerful El Niño weather event which along with climate change has helped push global temperatures to new highs, has ended, say scientists. [...] Scientists say that the months after the end of El Niño will give a strong indication as to whether the recent high temperatures are due to accelerated climate change or not. [...] The resulting warmer water in the Pacific has helped push global average temperatures to new highs, with March making it ten months in a row to break the record for that period.