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Just how powerful is the current El Niño? There’s more to the story than the very warm equatorial Pacific.

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In mid-November, California canceled the opening of its Dungeness crab fisheries, the latest in a series of closures up and down the U.S. West Coast this summer and fall linked to an unusually widespread bloom of toxic algae that thrives in warm waters.

This week, Beyond the Data looks at one of the more well-grounded “rules of thumb” for understanding climate change: cooler "things" are warming more quickly than warmer things.

With multiple sea surface temperature datasets come questions. What are they all for?