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...then the hysteria? This El Nino appeared from early data to be particularly strong. Hence the emergency preparations everywhere from California to South Africa. The major anticipated event for California is heavy rain. Some meteorologists, however, remain skeptical and distinctly unimpressed by the grim Noachian predictions. For example, Jan Null of the National Weather Service in Monterey, Calif., points out that in the eight heaviest El Nino years, California experienced on average only about a one-third increase in rainfall. In fact, two of these years, 1965 and 1991, brought drought...
...fact is that no one knows how severe this El Nino will be. There is nothing wrong with making preparations for the possibility of an extreme event. But other than being good for the umbrella business in L.A., the El Nino hype is simply stirring fear...
That does not, however, deter Vice President Al Gore, who lives in a state of perpetual environmental anxiety and will seize whatever weather event is at hand to justify it. Addressing the El Nino Community Preparedness Summit in Santa Monica, Calif., last month, Gore was quite unwilling to let El Nino speak for itself. After describing in lurid detail its predicted effects, he went into the presumed effects of global warming. Then, having set the trap, he sprang it: "While there is no definite link between El Ninos and overall climate change," he said (referring to global warming...
...fact, however, there is no evidence that El Ninos are caused or intensified or made more frequent by global warming. Indeed, the only thing global warming and El Nino have in common is that they are both about a warming. So is making toast...
...know that El Nino is caused by a decrease in the trade winds that blow east-west across the Pacific from Peru to Indonesia. To explain El Nino by global warming, you have to show that global warming caused these trade winds to cease...