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Scientists predicted, for example, that in western North America the south should be colder and wetter than last winter, while the north would be warmer and drier. That's just what happened: at one point this winter, it was snowing in Guadalajara, Mexico, while thermometers in Saskatchewan registered in the 50s. That doesn't mean the scientists are always right, of course. They can make broad-brush predictions of El Nino's effects without being able to forecast exactly what will happen in any given place. Some of the early prediction scenarios--no snow for the Olympic Winter Games...
This eastward flow is central to the physics that drive El Nino, says Scripps' Nicholas Graham. The sloshing sends waves across the ocean like ripples in a pond. These waves, in turn, push down on the so-called thermocline, a layer of cooler water that normally mingles with the warmer water at the surface. As the thermocline sinks to greater depths, the mixing stops, temperatures at the sea's surface rise, and an El Nino begins...
Residents of some of the Yard's biggest dorms, in particular Canaday, Wigglesworth and Thayer, complained that, in the words of Kristin M. Branson '01, "it wasn't much warmer inside than outside...
...house faction sort of reverse-hibernates through much of the warmer months, but they become much easier to find in the bleak of winter, when they brave all manner of snow and ice to see films about angst set amidst the very same snow and ice. This month alone, we have films about a schoolbus crashing in the snow, a town struck by an ice storm and Emma Thompson as a widow who takes pictures of snow and ice. No kidding; these folks can be a chilly bunch...
...these reasons, it may be inevitable that our children will grow up in a significantly warmer world, one whose climate will change in unpredictable ways. Yet for all the factors working against any sort of agreement in Kyoto, the last hope of controlling that change may depend on what happens there this week. Even the feeblest of agreements is better than none, says M.I.T. atmospheric chemist Michael Molina, who shared a 1995 Nobel Prize for helping unravel the tangentially related problem of ozone depletion. "The larger issue is to make sure the process begins," he says. "We'd better...