Our Affair with El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate HazardPrinceton University Press, 5 jun 2018 - 296 páginas Until 1997, few people had heard of the seasonal current that Peruvians nicknamed El Niño. But when meteorologists linked it to devastating floods in California, severe droughts in Indonesia, and strange weather everywhere, its name became entrenched in the common parlance faster than a typhoon making landfall. Bumper stickers appeared bearing the phrase "Don't blame me; blame El Niño." Stockbrokers muttered "El Niño" when the market became erratic. |
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... WITH HAZARDS 17 Famines in India 237 18 Fisheries of Peru 240 19 Droughts in Zimbabwe 244 EPILOGUE : Becoming Custodians of Planet Earth 251 NOTES AND REFERENCES 259 INDEX 273 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | am privileged to be a member of the.
... India copes with poor monsoon rains that cause poor harvests . Such events used to con- tribute to horrendous famines that led to the deaths of millions of people . That no longer happens , not because of advances in the prediction of ...
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OUR DILEMMA | 63 |
COMMON GROUND | 91 |
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE | 159 |
COPING WITH HAZARDS | 235 |
Becoming Custodians of Planet Earth | 251 |
NOTES AND REFERENCES | 259 |
INDEX | 273 |
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Our Affair with El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current ... S. George Philander Vista previa restringida - 2004 |
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