The results of the 2024 election came out two weeks ago, and we saw that the Donald Trump administration is taking power for a second term. Another term with the Trump administration has serious implications on climate efforts and policies.

El Niño events are a series of complex weather patterns in the Pacific ocean between Oceania and South America that result in irregular meteorological phenomena. Although El Niño events recur, they do not follow a specific cycle. These events lead to increased humidity, a higher frequency of intense hurricanes, and disrupted precipitation patterns. Due to its proximity to South America, the effects of El Niño are strongly felt in many South American countries, including Colombia. In particular, El Niño has contributed to persistent droughts across Colombia.

Everyone has heard of brutal volcanic eruptions, such as Tambora or Krakatau. These volcanos, intuitively, release several kinds of harmful and dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere such as sulfur dioxide and acids. Recently, there was an underwater volcanic eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga, a country in Oceania. This eruption released an unprecedented amount of water vapor into the atmosphere with the force of a nuclear weapon. The eruption happened over two uninhabited islands and it resulted in harms and benefits to the atmosphere in terms of climate change.