The Guardian view on a supersized El Niño: a natural phenomenon and human folly are a lethal combination | Editorial

UK ministers aim to reduce youth unemployment by introducing vocational GCSEs, though it remains unclear how these differ from fifty existing courses or if this is merely a rebadging exercise. Simultaneously, scientists warn of a Godzilla-level El Niño, potentially the strongest in a millennium. This natural phenomenon, combined with human folly, is expected to cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and widespread hunger as Pacific Ocean temperatures surpass previous records, creating a lethal combination of atmospheric heat.