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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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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
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 |