It surely is a religion.
El Nino and La Nina are terms that started in the 16 century to describe what the indigenous peoples of Central and South America called the cyclic changes is ocean temps and weather. The names were given to it by the colonizing Spanish but the phenomenon was known for centuries prior.
Today, the climate cultists, with collective memories measured in days, see the normally 7 year cycles as the first occurrence, caused by SUVs, and declare the end is near. Time to live in caves and eat bugs.
It’s easy to feed this garbage to someone under 20 years old. They haven’t lived a complete El Nino-La Nina-El Nino cycle yet. Plus focusing on 10ths and 100ths of degrees, when temperatures were measured differently in the past, makes for scary looking Excel graphs.
It seems like the older one gets the less likely they are to fall for this crap. Hmmm.
EC
We’ll said. Through careful observation, I believe the El Nino pattern has shifted north. Up until 10 or 12 years ago, maybe more, here in Florida ww would have cold fronts come through once or twice a year in the fall and winter months. It would rain for a whole day or more. The fronts now seem to sweep through Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia these days. There is a similar pattern in the summer but we still get daily rains because of the humidity and the east and west sea breezes colliding over the state. Yes I’m old...