Pat Shingleton for August 1, 2008
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Cesar Caviedes’ book “El Niño in History: Storming Through the Ages” chronicles the history of El Niño and its impact on world history. He evaluated the El Niño/Southern Oscillatio and its effects on the Peruvian fishing industry. As noted in a previous Weather News article, the relationship of El Niño to current events and to other marine ecosystems includes the insect and disease outbreak that might have caused the Black Death of the 1300s. Caviedes believes El Niño influenced the weather with Napoleon’s advance on Moscow in 1812 and Hitler’s advance on Stalingrad. When Spanish explorer Pizarro invaded South America, journals note stormy weather over western Europe.
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