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Michael H. Glantz

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

by Michael H. Glantz (Author)

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Every year, extreme climatic problems occur around the globe, with droughts in some places and floods in others. Recently, we have come to recognise that some of these widely dispersed climatic extremes might have a common origin in the periodic warming of sea surface water in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. A century ago, Peruvian fishermen connected this appearance of warm water every December to changes in fish numbers and christened it 'El Niño', the Spanish term for the Christ Child. In some years, El Niño lingers, and seems to be connected with droughts in Australia, Brazil or India, reduced incidence of tropical hurricanes on the east coast of the US, and floods in Peru. Currents of Change explains in simple terms what El Niño is, how its effects might be forecast and its far reaching impacts on all of us.

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0521576598
ISBN-13

978-0521576598
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First Edition
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Cambridge University Press
Publication date

September 28, 1996
Language

English
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5.98 x 0.59 x 8.98 inches
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208 pages
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K.P. CHEN

EL NINO AS PART OF THIS GREATER EAST-WEST INTERPLAY

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 1998

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)

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