Our Affair with El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate HazardPrinceton University Press, 5 июн. 2018 г. - Всего страниц: 296 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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... appears on bumper stickers and T - shirts , at- tests to the recognition and notoriety El Niño gained in 1997 when he apparently caused innumerable weather - related disasters worldwide . Although everybody now knows of him , he remains ...
... appears along the shores of Ecuador and Peru around Christmastime , which was welcomed as a blessing . This remarkable change in our perception of El Niño occurred even though that natural phenomenon has re- mained essentially constant ...
... appears along the shores of Ecuador and Peru around Christmastime , when it brings welcome relief from the cold waters that otherwise bathe those shores.1 The transforma- tion of a regional curiosity , which we used to welcome as a ...
... appear at the " right " time are capable of inducing El Niño . What factors determine the “ right ” time ? Con- sider a swinging pendulum subjected to modest blows at random times . A blow at the right time can increase the amplitude of ...
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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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