Super El Nino to shatter more than just temperatures

Tuesday 28 July 2026

Climate change is about to become a major issue again.

Public concern about climate change always rises and falls with El Niño, the weather phenomenon that interacts with global warming to produce extreme temperature spikes and drought in Australia.

The Southern Oscillation Index is at its most extreme in twenty years.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.