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Currents of Change: El Niño's Impact on Climate and Society
by Michael H. Glantz
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (1996-09-28)
ISBN: 0521576598
EAN: 9780521576598
Dewy Decimal #: 551.476
Paperback: 208 pages
SKU: 05173
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Minor wear on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Every year, extreme climatic problems occur around the globe, with droughts in some places and floods in others. Recently, we have come to recognise that some of these widely dispersed climatic extremes might have a common origin in the periodic warming of sea surface water in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. A century ago, Peruvian fishermen connected this appearance of warm water every December to changes in fish numbers and christened it 'El Niño', the Spanish term for the Christ Child. In some years, El Niño lingers, and seems to be connected with droughts in Australia, Brazil or India, reduced incidence of tropical hurricanes on the east coast of the US, and floods in Peru. Currents of Change explains in simple terms what El Niño is, how its effects might be forecast and its far reaching impacts on all of us.
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Customer Reviews
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The best book regarding El Nino and it's impact on society
Rating  (5)
Date: 1999-06-22
7 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
I read Currents of Change in a short amount of time and was engrossed...something I rarely do with non-fiction books! Michael Glantz allows the reader to fully understand El Nino without the drama and hysteria we get from the media...though we should be concerned and prepared for El Nino. It's impacts are real and El Nino is a complicated weather system. With the help of Glantz's book, anyone can understand the complexities of our earth's weather pattern and how it relates to El Nino. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in EL Nino, La Nina, and weather in general for that matter. It's easy to read and understand because Glantz puts this difficult weather event in terms that are easy to comprehend.
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EL NINO AS PART OF THIS GREATER EAST-WEST INTERPLAY
Rating (5)
Date: 1998-02-17
1 out of 19 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have not read this book, but I know my title should be fundamentally correct... why? 1)EL NINO parallels AIDS disease; 2)EL NINO parallels US-CHINA very bumpy and needy relationship; 3)EL NINO parallels the dawning of Digital Age; 4)EL NINO parallels the Woman/Minority Movements; 5)EL NINO parallels the rise of Asian Economic Power; 6)EL NINO parallels the greater tendency for people to stay indoors; 7)EL NINO parallels the US media's "China Conspiracy"; 8) EL NINO parallels the lost of Yang Potency across the globe; 9) EL NINO parallels the greater justication of "blunt" immorality as "disguised" morality ... etc. No wonder, EL NINO was coined the name: THE GHOST CHILD... we can "fool" each other, but we cannot fool EL NINO. (forgive me, if I am wrong)
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