El Nino

John Carlisle, the director of Environmental Policy Task Force of the National Center for Public Policy Research, believes that Earth is currently in a warm interglacial called the "Holocene" that began 10,700 years ago. Between 6500 B.C and 3500 B.C, the temperature increased from 58 F to 62 F. This is the warmest the earth has been during the Holocene, which is why scientists refer to the period as the Holocene Maximum.

How El Nino Affecs Alabama Weather What is El Nino and what damage does it cause? El Nino is a periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean that sets off unstable weather patterns across the globe. Every time one develops in Alabama, cooler and wetter develops in the fall and winter months. The most serious El Nino weather pattern occured in 1997, creating floods and more snowfall in well-populated areas of the country.

The human race all around the world wonders if the climate is changing due to human activity or if it is just a natural occurrence. At certain parts of the Earth's surface, the climate can be observed much differently than other locations. As the years go by the average temperature of the Earth increases by little intervals. There are several different reasons why people believe the climate is changing every year. However, the increase of worldwide population and production of heat to the atmosphere is due to the increase of human activities that take place on a daily basis. Human activity is the main cause of the global climate change. The human impact on climate exceeds any known changes due to natural processes. The impact of this human activity is often misunderstood when looking at climate change.

Overall El Niño is a world wide phenomenon which affects countries in different ways depending on were they are situated and whether they are a LEDC or MEDC.

This caused more snake bites as mice from the higher elevations came to lower elevations to find food and water while their prey (snakes) followed them. In New Mexico, however, the climate turned cooler and wetter. This caused an increase in the bubonic plague, because the weather conditions were ideal for fleas and rodents. “The mountain and pacific states had severe storms that caused $1.1 billion of damage and left 45 plus people dead” (Blue Planet, 2017, table 1). Because of the abnormal warm sea surface temperatures, there were multiple shark attacks off the Oregon coast. This caused the sharks to migrate towards the warm ocean waters. The California coast suffered from continuous violent rain, wind and high tides that eroded the shore. The erosion caused fishermen to notice different species along the coastline that did not belong in that particular area (Gannon, 1986). Also during the famous 1982-1983 El Niño, Hawaii was hit by Hurricane Iwa causing an abundance amount of damage (Blue Planet, 2017). “Perhaps one of the most striking effect of the 1982-1983 El Niño was recorded by David Salstein and Richard Rosten of Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They found that the angular momentum of the Earth shifted slightly as a result of changes in the normal pattern of the jet stream and trade winds. In late January, at El Niño’s peak, the

Can El Niño save California from wildfires, wilting crops and weary front lawns? The tropical event which causes the Pacific to warm and generally increases precipitation may be California’s Hail Mary. Indeed, there are reasons climatologists are optimistic about its arrival as California experienced two of its wettest years during two of El Niño’s visits -- in 1982 and 1997. The expectation that the powerful brewing storm will pummel California with precipitation sounds reasonable, but will that be enough? According to a NYT article, the state may just be hard-wired for continued drought and needs a real solution, not a hope and a prayer. Riding into the storm with a yearlong rain deficit, El Niño, the hopeful hero of the drought would theoretically

It is important to understand the various cycles our atmosphere goes through due to how they affect our daily lives. The ENSO Cycle has a large impact globally and locally in California as we have seen with the long-term drought Southern California is currently in. The ENSO cycle can be defined by sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly in the Pacific Equatorial Area known as Nino 3.4 region (5oN-5oS, 120o-170oW). Unusually cooler waters (-.5 degrees centigrade) occurring for three consecutive months outlines a La Niña. La Niña’s bring wetter weather to Australia and Indonesia but often leaves the Eastern Pacific dry. Unlike La Niña’s, unusually warm water (+.5 degrees centigrade above average) occurring for 3 consecutive month’s outlines an

el nino is a warm band of water that periodically develops in the Pacific Ocean near the equator off western South America. El Niño—Spanish for “the child” because it often occurs around Christmas—occurs about once every two to seven years. El Niño can affect the weather in large parts of Asia, Africa, Indonesia, and North and South America, causing both floods and droughts. An El Niño event is often followed by a band of colder than normal ocean waters called La Niña, which is Spanish for “the girl.” La Niña produces the opposite weather conditions. Both of these phenomena cause changes in air pressure in the western Pacific. Together these two events are known as ENSO, or El Niño–Southern

Changes are occurring in the Precipitation level. More hotter in summers are than normal leading to more storms.

The Western United States and Alaska were slammed with massive heat in 2014. Records were broke in North America and across every inhabited continent. The oceans were warmer except around most of Antarctica. Scientists say that the warming of the ocean is, "...providing the energy that fuel damaging Pacific storms.". Along with record breaking heat temperatures, the 2014 year passed 2010 for the warmest year. The top 10 warmest years have occured since 1997. The scientists say this is, "a consequence of human activity and possess profound long-term risks to civilization and nature" (2014 Breaks Heat Record). Scientists say that the most remarkable thing about the 2014 heat record was that it occured without a strong El Nino. An El Nino is

In the article “New El Nino coming on strong” by Janet Raloff they explain how we might be on the verge of a record breaking El Nino.El Nino is Spanish for boy and it's a set of weather changes that happens every few years bringing heat, rain and drought to different areas.Scientists say it could compete with the “super El Ninos” of 1982 and 1997.The event is the largest it's been for this year .But with the rain El Nino brings to California will it solve our drought?

Our climate plays an important role in human societies and affects agriculture, ecosystems, our natural environment and our health.

The Greenland Ice Cores is key to observing the Climate changes that occur in our environment. The process can be determined by using light summer bands and dark winter bands and measuring the distance between them, the distance shows the overall annual precipitation throughout the years. The Ocean can also help prove this fact, what the ocean does is absorb the heat from the atmosphere’s precipitations and then release it as the name of ENSO, the measurements used for this are instruments such as thermometers, rain gauges, and stream gauges. Sea Surface Temperatures play a key role in Tracking ENSO with its’ other ocean

Did you know that Climate change is affecting people all around the world? Climate change is a very bad thing that has been going on for hundreds of years. So many things are being affected by climate change. Things that are being affected are trees, plants, animals, and even people. One reason that climate change is happening is that the earth is always in orbit so the climate is always changing. Climate change isn’t only nature, climate change is caused from humans, the sun, and animals. We are causing climate change by burning things. Scientists predicted this and they’re using models to predict climate change. Snow leopards in the Himalayas are dieing off. Asian Rhinos depend on floodplain grasslands and climate change changes the seasonal patterns the Rhinos go off of. Orang-utans are also one of the species at risk from deforestation. The ice that the Polar Bears use for homes are slowly starting to melt which means they are becoming more and more crowded.

Over the years there has been a lot of controversy on if climate change is an issue that needs to be discussed and solved. There is a constant debate among scientist on if human actions are contributing the changing of earth’s climates. Climate change is defined as the change in average weather patterns for a specific region or Earth as a whole. This could include the change in an average temperature for a city or the amount a rainfall it receives (Dunbar, 2015). The main difference between weather and climate is the period of time specific patterns are recorded. Weather patterns are looked at over a much shorter period of time, meaning that these patterns are going to be more sporadic and change more frequently. Climate on the other had is recorded over a much longer period of time and usually show less drastic changes in patterns when compared to weather. Some people may argue that climate change is not an issue because Earth’s temperature is always changing do to natural effects. What people don’t realize is that human activity has effected the rate that earth’s temperature is changing, and just the smallest changes can lead to drastic consequences (Dunbar, 2015).