Our Affair with El Niño : : How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard / / S. George Philander.
Until 1997, few people had heard of the seasonal current that Peruvians nicknamed El Niño. But when meteorologists linked it to devastating floods in California, severe droughts in Indonesia, and strange weather everywhere, its name became entrenched in the common parlance faster than a typhoon maki...
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Philander, S. George, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Our Affair with El Niño : How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard / S. George Philander. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2004 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE: Assessing Our Affair as It Approaches a Critical Juncture -- Part 1: Who Is El Niño? -- ONE. A Mercurial Character -- TWO. A Fallen Angel? -- THREE. Construct of Ours -- FOUR. Matchmaker -- Part 2: Our Dilemma -- FIVE. Two Incompatible Cultures -- SIX. "Small" Science versus "Big" Science -- Part 3: Common Ground -- SEVEN. The Perspective of a Painter -- EIGHT. The Perspective of a Poet -- NINE. The Perspective of a Musician -- TEN. Marriage of the "Hard" and "Soft" Sciences -- ELEVEN. The Cloud -- Part 4: A Brief History of the Science -- TWELVE. Predicting the Weather -- THIRTEEN. Investigating the Atmospheric Circulation -- FOURTEEN. Exploring the Oceans -- FIFTEEN. Reconciling Divergent Perspectives on El Niño -- SIXTEEN. Taking a Long-Term Geological View -- Part 5: Coping with Hazards -- SEVENTEEN. Famines in India -- EIGHTEEN. Fisheries of Peru -- NINETEEN. Droughts in Zimbabwe -- EPILOGUE: Becoming Custodians of Planet Earth -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Until 1997, few people had heard of the seasonal current that Peruvians nicknamed El Niño. But when meteorologists linked it to devastating floods in California, severe droughts in Indonesia, and strange weather everywhere, its name became entrenched in the common parlance faster than a typhoon making landfall. Bumper stickers appeared bearing the phrase "Don't blame me; blame El Niño." Stockbrokers muttered "El Niño" when the market became erratic. What's behind this fascinating natural phenomenon, and how did our perceptions of it change? In this captivating book, renowned oceanographer George Philander engages readers in lucid and stimulating discussions of the scientific, political, economic and cultural developments that shaped our perceptions of this force of nature. The book begins by outlining the history of El Niño, an innocuous current that appears off the coast of Peru around Christmastime--its name refers to the Child Jesus--and originally was welcomed as a blessing. It goes on to explore how our perceptions of El Niño were transformed, not because the phenomenon changed, but because we did. Philander argues persuasively that familiarity with the different facets of our affair with El Niño--our wealth of experience in dealing with natural hazards such as severe storms and prolonged droughts--can help us cope with an urgent and controversial environmental problem of our own making--global warming. Intellectually invigorating and a joy to read, Our Affair with El Niño is an important contribution to the debate about the relationship between scientific knowledge and public affairs. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Climatic changes. SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691113357 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691187921?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691187921 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691187921.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE: Assessing Our Affair as It Approaches a Critical Juncture -- Part 1: Who Is El Niño? -- ONE. A Mercurial Character -- TWO. A Fallen Angel? -- THREE. Construct of Ours -- FOUR. Matchmaker -- Part 2: Our Dilemma -- FIVE. Two Incompatible Cultures -- SIX. "Small" Science versus "Big" Science -- Part 3: Common Ground -- SEVEN. The Perspective of a Painter -- EIGHT. The Perspective of a Poet -- NINE. The Perspective of a Musician -- TEN. Marriage of the "Hard" and "Soft" Sciences -- ELEVEN. The Cloud -- Part 4: A Brief History of the Science -- TWELVE. Predicting the Weather -- THIRTEEN. Investigating the Atmospheric Circulation -- FOURTEEN. Exploring the Oceans -- FIFTEEN. Reconciling Divergent Perspectives on El Niño -- SIXTEEN. Taking a Long-Term Geological View -- Part 5: Coping with Hazards -- SEVENTEEN. Famines in India -- EIGHTEEN. Fisheries of Peru -- NINETEEN. Droughts in Zimbabwe -- EPILOGUE: Becoming Custodians of Planet Earth -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE: Assessing Our Affair as It Approaches a Critical Juncture -- Part 1: Who Is El Niño? -- ONE. A Mercurial Character -- TWO. A Fallen Angel? -- THREE. Construct of Ours -- FOUR. Matchmaker -- Part 2: Our Dilemma -- FIVE. Two Incompatible Cultures -- SIX. "Small" Science versus "Big" Science -- Part 3: Common Ground -- SEVEN. The Perspective of a Painter -- EIGHT. The Perspective of a Poet -- NINE. The Perspective of a Musician -- TEN. Marriage of the "Hard" and "Soft" Sciences -- ELEVEN. The Cloud -- Part 4: A Brief History of the Science -- TWELVE. Predicting the Weather -- THIRTEEN. Investigating the Atmospheric Circulation -- FOURTEEN. Exploring the Oceans -- FIFTEEN. Reconciling Divergent Perspectives on El Niño -- SIXTEEN. Taking a Long-Term Geological View -- Part 5: Coping with Hazards -- SEVENTEEN. Famines in India -- EIGHTEEN. Fisheries of Peru -- NINETEEN. Droughts in Zimbabwe -- EPILOGUE: Becoming Custodians of Planet Earth -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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