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During the coming months, scenes like this are likely to repeat themselves many times over. Thanks to El Nino, still more storms are expected to savage California well into spring. Once the weather improves, debris flows will end. But bedrock landslides won't dissipate until the waterlogged hillsides drain. Long after sparkling sunshine has replaced sullen skies, experts warn, Californians are likely to find their property slip-sliding away...
...story on El Nino incorrectly stated that Michael Glantz was formerly with the National Center for Atmospheric Research [SCIENCE, Feb. 16]. Glantz is still with NCAR as a senior scientist...
Over the next few years, Fairbanks hopes, he and others may shed light not only on El Nino's past but on its future as well. For if, as many experts expect, the atmosphere warms owing to the buildup of greenhouse gases, the El Nino cycle could very well change. But how? Would it speed up, slow down or stop entirely...
...interconnected it seems, and the harder it is to unravel. That does nothing to diminish the tremendous advances that have occurred over the past decade. In fact, it is only because they have learned so much that scientists are finally ready to tackle the questions that the current El Nino has so eloquently framed--questions that may still be formidable, but perhaps no longer quite so intractable...
Marilyn and J.F.K. Monica and Bill. Kids were selling star maps on Sunset Boulevard last week. Down on the coast, a seal washed ashore in the storm and took refuge in a public rest room even as Monica was taking refuge from the El Nino of all sex scandals. And a Brentwood News headline read, STAR TREK CAPTAIN TAKES OVER AS MAYOR...