On El NiñO & the Uncertain Science of Global Warming

Most people first heard of El Nino in 1997 when newspapers and television gave extensive coverage to various disasters associated with that phenomenon. Originally the name was given to a modest, warm current that appears along the shores of Ecuador and Northern Peru around Christmastime when the acc...

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Published inDaedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Vol. 133; no. 2; pp. 105 - 108
Main Author Philander, S. George H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA The MIT Press 22.03.2004
MIT Press
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Subjects
Analysis
Climate change
Control
El Niño
Environmental policy
Famine
Global warming
Government officials
Greenhouse gases
Meteorology
Monsoons
Natural hazards
Ocean currents
Oceans
Public officers
Rain
Television
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Summary:Most people first heard of El Nino in 1997 when newspapers and television gave extensive coverage to various disasters associated with that phenomenon. Originally the name was given to a modest, warm current that appears along the shores of Ecuador and Northern Peru around Christmastime when the accompanying rains transform the barren coastal desert of that region into a garden. Here, Philander focuses on El Nino and the uncertain science of global warming.
Bibliography:Spring, 2004
ISSN:0011-5266
1548-6192
DOI:10.1162/001152604323049451