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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... observed here ; 1951 which have been observed once , 1770 which have been observed twice ; so that , to carry out our intention , there are 11231 observations still required . The observations are printed up to the end of 1869 . With ...
... Observed Adopted Date Observed Adopted Date Observed Adopted 1913 γ γ 1913 γ γ 1914 γ γ Jan. 13 6325 28913 28906 Aug. 4 28864 28860 Apr. 14 28949 28942 906 906 11 860 860 21 944 941 20 910 906 19 857 860 28 934 940 27 903 906 26 864 860 ...
... Observed D Base - line Values and Values Adopted for Same Dates . ( 13 ° East plus tabular minutes ) Date No. of No. Observed Adopted Date Sets of Sets Observed Adopted Date No. of Observed Adopted Sets 1931 Jan. 1931 1 1 1932 T 1 Feb ...
... observed above and below on the same day ) , the just number is not completed . The other stars observed are principally : Stars remaining from the lists of former years , consisting chiefly of Stars compared with Comets observed with ...
... Observed Transit ... ... Mean R.A. } for 12m read 13m 1096 B.A.C. ..... ... 18 Observed Transit 21m 26m ... ... Mean R.A. 20m B Columbæ .... € Orionis B Columbæ .... 4845 B.A.C ...... D 2d L .......... 5579 B.A.C. 110 Herculis ...
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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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