Salon.com > El Nino http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 03:16:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 El Niño to worsen food woes http://www.salon.com/2012/08/16/el_nino_to_worsen_food_woes_salpart/ http://www.salon.com/2012/08/16/el_nino_to_worsen_food_woes_salpart/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:19:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12983882 LIMA, Peru — With global food prices spiking thanks to the US drought, El Niño was the last thing the world needed.

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But now meteorologists are warning that the phenomenon, which sees unusually warm waters in the Pacific cause freak weather from California to Australia, is under way.

In the last 10 days, the national weather agencies of the US, Japan, Australia, India and Peru, among others, have confirmed the first effects of El Niño in the eastern Pacific.

In the past, El Niño has caused massive disruption to agriculture around the Pacific Rim.

In a statement, the Climate Prediction Center, a US agency of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, said it now expected the early signs to develop into a full-blown El Niño during August or September as higher water temperatures translate into warmer air currents.

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