今年的“哥斯拉”级气候现象已打破温度记录。我们请教气候科学家以了解发生了什么。今年的强厄尔尼诺现象距上一次不足两年，已打破温度记录。
This year’s ‘godzilla’ climate phenomenon has already broken temperature records. We ask a climate scientist what is happening This year’s huge El Niño, which comes less than two years since the last one, has already broken temperature records.
为弄清发生了什么及其原因，《卫报》采访了埃克塞特大学气候科学家马特·柯林斯教授，他是全球多份重要气候报告的作者，也是厄尔尼诺-南方涛动动力学专家。
To understand what is happening, and why, the Guardian interviewed Prof Mat Collins, a climate scientist at the University of Exeter, the author of some of the world’s most important climate reports and an expert on the dynamics of the El Niño southern oscillation.