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El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-maker Book

El Niño, the Pacific Ocean-born weather system that has been much in the news over the last decade, "turns dry places wet, wet places dry, cold places warm, and warm places cold." Scientists have only begun to puzzle out its mysterious and erratic workings, a quest that Time magazine science correspondent Madeleine Nash chronicles in this engaging book. What those scientists have learned, Nash tells us, underscores the interconnectedness--and, in her words, the "teleconnectiveness"--of the world's ecological systems. El Niño may be born in the subtropical waters of the western Pacific (where, among other things, it has helped spark great firestorms in Australia and drought in Indonesia), but its influence extends around the globe. Moreover, Nash writes, El Niño touches billions of human lives, taking a role in the spread of diseases such as hantavirus and threatening food and water supplies. With the ever-growing human population and the enduring presence of the weather system and its cyclical counterpart, things are only likely to get worse, she tells us: "the torrential rains and searing droughts connected with future El Niños and La Niñas will mean still more loss of lives and property." Nash's inquiry into world weather and the science surrounding it makes for lively, and sometimes unsettling, reading. --Gregory McNameeRead More

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    It brings droughts, mud slides, killer storms, and even epidemics and hordes of frogs and rats. Now for the first time, here is the complete -and fascinating-story of the powerful weather-maker known as El NiÒo. In this saga of scientists and civilians, murderous storms and ecological shifts, award-winning Time(r) magazine science writer J. Madeline Nash reveals the mysterious sources of El NiÒo and its far-reaching, almost unbelievable effects on the lives of people around the world. The story begins with a warming of the coastal waters that Peruvian fishermen have noted for centuries, and the observations of 19th Century British colonial observers who marked the correlation between famine-causing droughts and drastic changes in wind patterns and barometric pressure. For over a century and a half, scientists and explorers added links of knowledge to a chain of observations that at last created a picture of what they call ENSO: El NiÒo Southern Oscillation, a picture that contains within it the interplay of wind, water, and geo-thermal forces that violently affects the world's weather. EL NI?O's story is filled with human drama, tragedy, and triumph.

  • 0446679925
  • 9780446679923
  • J.M. Nash
  • 5 June 2003
  • Little, Brown & Company
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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