{"id":5134,"date":"2015-02-01T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T15:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2015-02-01T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T15:24:18","slug":"sister-acts-of-havoc-set-to-intensify-el-nino-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5134","title":{"rendered":"Sister Acts of Havoc Set to Intensify El Ni\u00f1o Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/sister_acts_of_havoc_set_to_intensify_el_nino_effect_20150201\" target=\"_blank\">Sister Acts of Havoc Set to Intensify El Ni\u00f1o Effect<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>LONDON\u2014El Ni\u00f1o, the cyclic Pacific weather phenomenon that periodically brings global devastation in its wake, is not the only thing likely to grow more extreme with global warming.<\/p>\n<p>A team of international scientists now predicts that its cool little sister, La Ni\u00f1a, is liable to turn nasty more often too\u2014every 13 years, which is\u00a0<a title=\"EurekAlert: Global warming doubles risk of extreme La Ni\u00f1a event, research shows\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2015-01\/uoe-gwd012315.php\" target=\"_blank\">twice as often as the historic record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both are observed fluctuations in mid-ocean temperatures in the Pacific that are the signal for changes in the climate pattern: both are natural, both occur as part of a cycle, and both can be traced back through human history.<\/p>\n<h3>Mobile blister<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">El Ni\u00f1o is a mobile blister of Pacific Ocean heat that then affects winds and currents, and was first dubbed \u201cThe Child\u201d by Peruvian fishermen, who noticed that it tended to arrive around Christmas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A powerful El Ni\u00f1o is accompanied by drought and forest fire on the western side of the Pacific, and torrential rain and floods on the normally dry eastern Pacific coasts.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists then amended the name to label opposite phase of what they call the \u201cEl Ni\u00f1o southern oscillation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>With La Ni\u00f1a, unseasonally cold sea surface temperatures in the Pacific create a temperature gradient that can intensify droughts in the American south-west, trigger floods in the western Pacific, and hurricanes in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Acts of Havoc Set to Intensify El Ni\u00f1o Effect LONDON\u2014El Ni\u00f1o, the cyclic Pacific weather phenomenon that periodically brings global devastation in its wake, is not the only thing likely to grow more extreme with global warming. A team of international scientists now predicts that its cool little sister, La Ni\u00f1a, is liable to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,252,288,369,3103],"class_list":["post-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-el-nino","tag-extreme-weather","tag-global-warming","tag-la-nina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5135,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions\/5135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}