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Climate scientists think the first major El Niño since 1997-1998 is beginning to brew in the Pacific.

Climate scientists think the first major El Niño since 1997-1998 is beginning to brew in the Pacific.

The first sign of a brewing El Niño weather pattern came in January, as trade winds that normally blow from the east reversed course near Papua New Guinea. Barrelling back across the tropical Pacific Ocean, they began to push warm water towards South America. Now climate scientists and forecasters are on high alert.

A major El Niño event — a periodic warming of waters in the eastern equatorial Pacific — could boost temperatures and scramble weather worldwide. The most recent major event, in 1997–98, was linked to thousands of deaths and tens of billions of dollars in damage from droughts, fires and floods across several continents. Yet more than 15 years later, forecasting the timing and intensity of El Niño remains tricky, with incremental improvements in climate models threatened by the partial collapse of an ocean-monitoring system that delivers the data to feed those models.

Note the date of the last event, 1997-1998. This was also the last time the world’s global temperature saw an increase. At the time global warming scientists were saying that global warming would increase the number and severity of El Niño events, which in turn would raise havoc with the climate. Instead, we have gone more than a decade and a half without any significant El Niño event, and the global temperature rise has ceased.

Note also that the article focuses on the difficulty scientists have had in predicting El Niño. These are the same global warming scientists who are also certain they can predict the exact temperature rise for the next two hundred years.

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
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2 comments

  • Cotour

    This coming El Nino event may well push the public and political opinion regarding Global Warming, newly referred to as Climate Change for public relations reasons agenda to a critical mass. Timing is everything in life, ask Mr. Obama.

  • Cotour

    To my point: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/an-inconvenient-truth-producers-talking-692705

    If this docusciencedrama coincides with the arrival of an El Nino cycle it will / can / may tend to cause a critical mass (fear) in the eyes of the public and will become a tool of the left to install their agenda of control. Fear being a primary motivator.

    Timing is everything.

    And keep in mind that on the subject I think it can be agreed upon that the earth is in a general warming trend related to the recession of the ice sheets beginning about 12,000 years ago or so. What effect human activity has upon that general trend is the unknown that is the tool. My position being that pollution is the actual issue and employing technology and best practices related to pollution is what needs to be focused on.

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