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The Impact of Global Warming on the existence of El Niño/ La Niña.
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Form 4B2 28/02/03 Geography Midterm Assignment - The Impact of Global Warming on the existence of El Niņo/ La Niņa The El Niņo phenomenon was discovered in 1567 when South American fisherman noticed increases in the temperature of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, especially along the coasts of Ecuador and Peru. They called this phenomenon the El Niņo because it would occur around Christmas. "El Niņo is the Spanish for the boy, signifying the baby Jesus' birth. In the 1920s, Sir Gilbert Walker, head of the Indian Meteorological Service, found that the air pressure over Darwin in the Western Hemisphere was exactly opposite to the air pressure over Tahiti an island in the Eastern Hemisphere. He found that when the atmospheric pressure increased in the East, it decreased in the West and when it increased in the West it decreased in the East. He called this relationship between the two the...
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