BBC News, on Climate, 13 November 2026
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Read the original article on bbc.co.uk (opens in a new tab)The BBC explains how the developing El Niño could shift the odds of wet, dry, warm or snowy winter weather across the US and Canada, with historical examples and clear caveats. It states the human cause of warming as fact and links climate change to wildfire-scarred flood risk and declining snowfall. Nothing in it misleads the reader.
“snowfall amounts are decreasing overall in most places due to human-induced climate change”
The BBC states the human cause of warming as plain fact in its own voice, with no 'scientists claim' hedge, and ties it to the winter weather the piece discusses.
“with the effects of climate change exacerbating the risks”
In a story about expected floods and mudslides, the BBC gives the reader the climate link rather than presenting the risk as purely natural.
“No two El Niños are the same and the impacts are not guaranteed - the odds are just shifted in favour of certain outcomes.”
The BBC keeps forecast uncertainty honest, presenting El Niño as shifting probabilities rather than promising outcomes, and backs this with counter-examples such as California's dry 2015-2016 winter.
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