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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... 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 prediction of longer - term changes in ...
... prediction of a drought in effect caused a drought . The tragedy in Zimbabwe ... forecast ? Or did they cynically welcome the forecast of a mysterious threat from the remote Pacific ... weather and climate ( Geosciences 220 at 4 Prologue.
... Weather forecasting is a source of reliable information today , but the skill of meteorologists was far lower in the ... Weather prediction has advanced significantly because meteorolo- gists are tested frequently - daily . Those who ...
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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 Nino: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current ... S. George Philander Vista previa restringida - 2006 |