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There has been a lot of buzz over the last few months of an El Nino taking shape across the globe. These often bring wet conditions to the southern and western U.S. and warmer conditions to the state of Minnesota. But recent observations are showing that our El Nino may not even happen.
There are many different ways to measure if an El Nino is occurring, but the main way is to measure sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific… it's this area that is often most affected by an El Nino event. Well, the latest trends aren't promising…
Our El Nino year may not happen by Cody Matz KMSP (Detroit), Jan 18, 2015
As colder than seasonal temperatures have taken hold across Canada this winter, you may be asking, “Where is El Niño?” The answer is that El Niño conditions are already in place in the Pacific, but not all El Niños are created equal. Analysis of current conditions shows how this year’s unique flavour of El Niño will help keep some parts of Canada warm, while others will remain in the deep freeze.
El Niño update explains impact on Canada in months to come by Michael Carter, The Weather Newtwork, Jan 16, 2015
"Climate change is particularly tricky," said Alexander Aylett, a professor at the National Institute of Scientific Research in Montreal and author of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report, "Urban Climate Change Governance Survey," that examined to what extent cities around the world are trying to tackle climate change.
"Governments are used to dealing with problems that are somebody else's business," he said. "The people who build your roads don't regulate what happens on top of them or how we build next to them, but climate change is everywhere, all the time, all at once."
U.S. Cities Lag in Race against Rising Seas by Brittany Patterson, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Jan 15, 2015
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