Scientifically illiterate, incoherent reporting. This article correctly states that El Niño is a natural climate oscillation, but also calls it a "climate change phenomenon" without properly qualifying or justifying this term. In nearly every contemporary usage, "climate change" refers in particular to anthropogenic, long-term climate change as a result of industrial greenhouse gas emissions. Applying it to El Niño is disingenuous because while it is a temporary or cyclical alteration in climate, the El Niño phenomenon has likely been going on for thousands of years, prior to industrialization.

There is no definitive evidence that a rise in the average global temperature has or will make El Niño more intense or last longer. Such detailed climate modeling is not yet possible and there are too many unpredictable variables. The article heavily implies or assumes that there is such a consensus that humans have caused El Niño to be more intense and therefore conflates political agenda-driven measures for reducing emissions with efforts to deal with a natural superannual weather cycle. This type of alarmist and inaccurate climate reporting is all too common in recent years.

https://ticotimes.net/2023/07/22/el-nino-the-climate-change-phenomenon-that-is-affecting-costa-rica