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The Pros And Cons Of El Nino By Roderick Gardner
The Pros and Cons of
El nino

By Roderick Gardner

Although El nino cause and consequences are very complex, scientists from many disciplines working together have created a pretty good picture of what going on. El nino does not work alone;like clark kent and superman, it appears only when its alter ego, La Nino,isn't around. Over much of the pacific ocean, when an El nino occurs, the water is unusually cool.this great alternate periods, when La Nina is in the pacific, the water is unusually warm. In alternate periods, when La Nina is the pacific the water is unusually cool. This great alternation produces changes in weather, sea level, surface temperature, snowpack, and distribution and abundance of organisms at localities over

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