“The US government forecaster has issued its most definitive report since first raising the El Niño alert three months ago, forecasting a weak phenomenon that will last until the Northern Hemisphere spring.“
Hmm… maybe. Time will tell what forecasters can’t but we are still not very good at predicting ENSO phases and events. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change
Tagged drought, El Niño, El Niño Southern Oscillation, ENSO, flood
Lighter rains mean more fires — and more pollution. Continue reading
AUSTRALIA’S big wet could finally be over, with a potentially drought-inducing El Nino weather pattern likely to descend on Australia’s east later this year. Continue reading
What they really mean is that no part of Australia is officially drought-declared (which enables Federal assistance) and that is somewhat unusual in the great land down-under. Continue reading
Eye-roller: “A shift away from this year’s La Niña to El Niño could dramatically alter temperature and extreme weather patterns—and global warming may play a role.” Continue reading
One dry year was evidence enough of man-made warming for David Karoly in 2003: Continue reading
THREE of the nation’s leading climate scientists have linked the past two years of record wet weather to climate change in their strongest findings yet on the impact of global warming on the nation’s climate. Continue reading
TIM Flannery, Australia’s Chief Climate Commissioner, once declared that “even the rain that falls will not fill up the dams”. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged drought, El Niño, El Niño Southern Oscillation, ENSO, flood, La Niña
It wasn’t all that long ago when a number of climate scientists were projecting the Earth would soon fall into an almost permanent, increasing El Niño mode, where the surface temperatures of the equatorial Pacific would always be like what we saw in 1998 – all man-made. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged El Niño, El Niño Southern Oscillation, ENSO, La Niña, PlayStation® climatology
