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What Do Farmers Need to Know About Climate Change? Anticipating More Extreme Weather Related to El Nino
2018-01-08 23:44:44| National Farmers Union
By Tom Driscoll, Director of NFU Foundation and Conservation Policy Climate change is likely to impact or exacerbate extreme weather events related to El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). According to The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), “ENSO is a periodic fluctuation in sea surface temperature (El Nio) and the air pressure of the overlying atmosphere […]
'The Blob' overshadows El Nino
2016-07-07 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: New research based on ocean models and near real-time data from autonomous gliders indicates that the "The Blob" and El Nio together strongly depressed productivity off the West Coast, with The Blob driving most of the impact. The research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by scientists from NOAA Fisheries, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and University of California, Santa Cruz is among the first to assess the marine effects of the 2015-2016 El Nio off the West Coast of...
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Double shock of El Nino, La Nina could affect more than 100 mln people - UN
2016-07-06 12:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The number of people affected by the combined impact of the El Nino and La Nina weather patterns could exceed 100 million by the end of the year, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that more than 60 million people, two thirds of them in east and southern Africa, are facing food shortages because of droughts linked to El Nino, a climate phenomenon that occurs when water in the Pacific Ocean becomes abnormally warm. The impact of La...
El Nino and climate change a dire recipe for Africa
2016-06-17 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The UN says 1.2 million under the age of five have acute malnutrition The most powerful El Nino weather event in half a century is officially over but its impact will be felt most severely in Africa, which is now in the grip of its most devastating drought in 35 years. Families across southern and eastern Africa had barely recovered from two years of erratic and failed rains, only to be hit by drought and dire food shortages. The United Nations said the food crisis is ruining lives on a...
Strongest El Nino in nearly 20 years ends: Australian weather bureau
2016-05-24 07:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The strongest El Nino in nearly 20 years, which damaged crop production in Asia and caused food shortages, has ended, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said on Tuesday. Climate indicators associated with El Nino, which emerged in 2015, have now returned to neutral levels, the BOM said. El Nino sees in a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific which can lead to scorching weather across Asia and east Africa, but heavy rains and floods in South America. The latest El Nino...
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