A super El Niño is shattering temperature records and threatening crop failures and flooding across the globe, while measles deaths in Pennsylvania expose rifts in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccination stance, and six months of U.S.-Iran conflict has yielded few stated objectives amid economic devastation. Modern El Niños are about 36 percent stronger than pre-industrial ones due to climate change, increasing risks of extreme weather including droughts in the northern U.S. and destructive flooding in the southern half.