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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... example , meteorologists have transformed weather prediction from an augury into a reliable source of important information , a splendid achievement that most people take for granted . Now scientists are turning their attention to the ...
... example . In principle this is laudable , but in practice it is fraught with dangers and can do harm in both the scientific and social spheres . This does not mean that scien- tists should confine their interests strictly to science . A ...
... example is the way the government of 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 ...
... example , the dreary doldrums coincide with the swath of warm water that stretches clear across the Pacific along the latitude of approximately 10 ° N. That zone and , more generally , regions of high sea surface temperature in low ...
... example is a sea breeze from the cool ocean toward the warm land during the day ; the wind blows in the opposite direction at night , when the land is cooler than the ocean . ) The absence of temperature differ- ences between the ...
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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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