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The Impact Of the Global Warming On the El Niño/La Niña.
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Form: 4B2 Name: Roger Browne Date: 3rd March 2003 Teacher: Damien Hughes Geography Midterm Assignment- The Impact Of the Global Warming On the El Niņo/La Niņa The El Niņo was discovered in the 1500s when South American fisherman from Ecuador and Peru realised that at a certain time of the year the sea temperature of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, would rise. They called this El Niņo because it would tend to take place during the Christmas season. As it originates in South America, a virtually Spanish continent the name El Niņo is Spanish. It means the baby boy. The reason why the named the experience the El Niņo (the baby boy) is because it represents the birth of Jesus Christ. In 1926, Sir Gilbert Walker, an Indian Meteorologist discovered that atmospheric pressure in the eastern hemisphere and western hemisphere were opposite. When it was high in the west, it was low in the...
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