re: #333 LudwigVanQuixote

More than just Hansen are predicting a full blown el nino in 2012/13.

It really will make this year look tame.

Did you see this?

Global Warming Behind Somali Drought

“The present drought in the Horn of Africa has been provoked by El Nio and La Nia phenomena in the Pacific Ocean, which unsettle the normal circulation of warm and cold water and air, and dislocate the humidity conditions across the southern hemisphere,” Friedrich-Wilhelm Gerstengarbe, senior scientist at the German Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK, after its German name), told IPS.
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Gerstengarbe says climate change and the rising global temperatures caused by it have intensified both El Nio and La Nia, leading to severe floods in Pakistan and Australia, and drought in the Horn of Africa.