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Currents of Change: El Niño's Impact on Climate and Society

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I read Currents of Change in a short amount of time and was engrossed...something I rarely do with non-fiction books! Michael Glantz allows the reader to fully understand El Nino without the drama and hysteria we get from the media...though we should be concerned and prepared for El Nino. It's impacts are real and El Nino is a complicated weather system. With the help of Glantz's book, anyone can understand the complexities of our earth's weather pattern and how it relates to El Nino. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in EL Nino, La Nina, and weather in general for that matter. It's easy to read and understand because Glantz puts this difficult weather event in terms that are easy to comprehend.

I have not read this book, but I know my title should be fundamentally correct... why? 1)EL NINO parallels AIDS disease; 2)EL NINO parallels US-CHINA very bumpy and needy relationship; 3)EL NINO parallels the dawning of Digital Age; 4)EL NINO parallels the Woman/Minority Movements; 5)EL NINO parallels the rise of Asian Economic Power; 6)EL NINO parallels the greater tendency for people to stay indoors; 7)EL NINO parallels the US media's "China Conspiracy"; 8) EL NINO parallels the lost of Yang Potency across the globe; 9) EL NINO parallels the greater justication of "blunt" immorality as "disguised" morality ... etc. No wonder, EL NINO was coined the name: THE GHOST CHILD... we can "fool" each other, but we cannot fool EL NINO. (forgive me, if I am wrong)