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Forecasters say a strong El Niño climate pattern is now established and will shape U.S. weather through the winter. The pattern tends to bring warmer-than-normal conditions to the northern U.S. and wetter conditions to the South, with periodic extreme swings in temperature and storm activity.
Oxford professor Nick Eyre's model compares today's global final energy demand of 416 exajoules with a projected post-transition figure of 247 exajoules, achieved by electrifying suitable sectors and running the rest on hydrogen. Under this scenario electricity demand itself rises from 110 to 189 exajoules, even as overall energy use falls sharply, largely because electrified transport and heating are far more efficient than fossil-fuel equivalents.