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On El Nino & the uncertain science of global warming.
Most people first heard of El Nino in 1997 when newspapers and television gave extensive coverage to various disasters associated with that phenomenon: devastating floods in California, severe droughts in Indonesia, and strange weather everywhere. Everybody became familiar with El Nino, but few realized that the phenomenon has been with us for millennia and that, at first, it was welcomed as a blessing. Originally the name was given to a modest, warm current that appears along the shores of Ecuador and northern Peru around Christmastime when the accompanying rains transform the barren coastal desert of that region into a garden. (The term is Spanish for 'the boy' and ...
- La Nina gets ornery.(weather pattern may be worse than El Nino)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Licking, Ellen F. July 27, 1998 700+ words
...that replaces the abnormally warm waters of El Nino. La Nina has followed El Nino only four times in the past century, but this...south into the United States. In this century, El Nino and La Nina have each dominated yearly weather patterns...
- WITHOUT EL NINO AND LA NINA TO STIR ATMOSPHERE, FORECASTERS FACE WEATHER...
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) September 26, 2000 700+ words
...Writer With the death of the El Nino and La Nina global weather patterns, forecasters...when you have a big signal like El Nino or La Nina, it's a little bit of a no...first since 1996-1997 when an El Nino-La Nina cycle has seemingly ...
- World Meteorological Organization Region IV Adopts Consensus El Nino and La...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 29, 2005 700+ words
...Consensus Index and Definitions of El Nino and La Nina conditions. By doing so, scientists...Consensus Index and Definitions of El Nino and La Nina. The next step is to seek a...the regional agreement for an El Nino/La Nina index and ...
- Solar cycle linked to global climate, drives events similar to El Nino, La...
- Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health & Science August 9, 2009 700+ words
...aftermath have impacts on Earth that resemble La Nina and El Nino events in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The research...response is only about half as strong as with El Nino. True La Nina and El Nino events are associated with changes in the temperatures...
- El Nino and La Nina effects on reproductive cycle of the pearl oyster Pinctada...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Shellfish Research Garcia-Cuellar, J. Angel Garcia-Dominguez, Federico Lluch-Belda, Daniel Hernandez-Vazquez, Sergio April 1, 2004 700+ words
...November 1999. KEY WORDS: El Nino, La Nina, pearl oyster. Pinctada mazatlanica...reproduction in P. mazatlanica by El Nino and La Nina events. This study describes...availability of food due to the El Nino and La Nina climatic events. ...
- SANS EL NINO, LA NINA, NORMAL WINTER PROBABLE.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) October 17, 2003 700+ words
...WASHINGTON -- With neither El Nino nor La Nina showing up in any strength...climatologists haven't had El Nino or the cold-seawater counterpart La Nina in the Pacific to guide...had a somewhat stronger El Nino and predicted it would make...
- 'Normal' winter weather won't quite feel that way No El Nino, La Nina means...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Zawislak, Mick December 13, 2000 700+ words
...But without the influence of El Nino and La Nina, Spanish for the male and female...rule this year. But without El Nino or La Nina generating warm winds and steering...do agree on is that without El Nino and La Nina, the twin phenomena that ...
- -CSIRO: Ocean data to unlock mysteries of El Nino, La Nina
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire June 10, 1998 700+ words
...data to unlock mysteries of El Nino, La Nina (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...100698 Advance warning of El Nino, La Nina and similar climate variations...Australia. Climate events such as El Nino and La Nina have an enormous economic impact...
