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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... : COPING 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.
... droughts in Indo- nesia , mild winters in Canada , the disappearance of fish from the waters off Peru , and the appearance of unusual tropical fish off San Francisco ? These are some of the questions that reporters , journalists , and ...
... drought in effect caused a drought . The tragedy in Zimbabwe raises many questions . Why did the policy makers in Zimbabwe assign too much weight to the scien- tific predictions ? Did they fail to appreciate the significance of a ...
... droughts , mild and severe winters — that his name has become part of our vocabulary ; it designates a mischievous gremlin . El Niño joins a host of meteorological phenomena that serve as metaphors in our daily speech : the president is ...
... droughts at such times . How does La Niña succeed in keeping the equator cold despite the intense sunlight at that latitude ? By bringing the winds into play , using them to bring the cold waters of the deep ocean to the surface . This ...
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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 |
Our Affair with El Nino: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current ... S. George Philander Vista previa restringida - 2006 |
Our Affair with El Nino: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current ... S. George Philander Vista previa restringida - 2006 |