A study of the El Niño phenomenon over the past 21,000 years suggests that El Niño responded in complex ways to a changing climate, with several competing factors playing a part in its varying strength. See Letter p.550
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Brown, J. El Niño's variable history. Nature 515, 494–495 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/515494a
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