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2026-07-17 15:25 UTC
Why the hell's it called El Niño? I ask myself after about the hundredth time of reading the term this morning.
"El Niño means Little Boy in Spanish. South American fishermen first noticed periods of unusually warm water in the Pacific Ocean in the 1600s. The full name they used was El Niño de Navidad, because El Niño typically peaks around December."
— NOAA National Ocean Service
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ninonina.html
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@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io 2026-07-17 15:31
I don't know about you but I'm tired of reading stories about things I personally can do nothing about. But it's necessary to be informed, to know what's coming, to brace. "I think we should prepare for some pretty significant impacts. El Niño is no joke, both for agriculture, for the natural world, for ocean ecosystems." —Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist with Berkeley Earth, a non-profit climate analysis organization, from the article https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/el-nino-july-9.7272908 #climate #weather #oceans