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To: Clappy who wrote (46159)	1/10/2002 6:17:15 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 65232

El Nino May Be Returning Thursday January 10 1:11 PM ET By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The world may be headed for another bout with El Nino. The periodic event that can trigger changes in the weather worldwide could return in early spring and affect the United States by late summer, the federal Climate Prediction Center reported Thursday. The severity of the effects depends on how strong the El Nino is and it's too early to predict that, said Vernon Kousky of the climate center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A severe El Nino in 1997-98 caused flooding in California and along the Gulf Coast. The first signs of an El Nino (pronounced El NEEN-yo) are an unusual warming of the water in the tropical Pacific Ocean, something that has begun to occur, the agency said. That can result in increases in rising warm air, changes in the air pressure patterns and shifts in the high-level winds that direct the movement of weather. The climate center said indications of the current warming include increased cloudiness and rainfall over the equatorial central Pacific for the first time since the last El Nino. ``Considering the observed oceanic and atmospheric circulation patterns and their recent evolution, it seems most likely that warm-episode conditions will develop in the tropical Pacific over the next 3-6 months,'' Kousky said. The first area affected would be the tropical Pacific, he said, with Indonesia likely to get some relief from torrential rains. If El Nino develops as expected, the Pacific northwest will experience wetter than normal conditions in the fall. In the winter, Louisiana eastward to Florida, and possibly southern California, could also experience wetter than normal conditions, and the northern Great Plains could experience warmer than normal conditions, Kousky said. El Ninos are associated with increased rainfall across the east-central and eastern Pacific and with drier than normal conditions over northern Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines. During an El Nino, December-February will usually see wetter than usual patterns along coastal Ecuador, northwestern Peru, southern Brazil, central Argentina and equatorial eastern Africa. Drier than normal conditions are generally observed over northern South America, Central America and southern Africa during this period. During June-August of an El Nino it will be drier than normal over eastern Australia and wetter than usual in the intermountain regions of the United States and over central Chile. Turning to temperature, during December-February of an El Nino year it tends to be abnormally warm across Southeast Asia, southeastern Africa, Japan, southern Alaska and western-central Canada, southeastern Brazil and southeastern Australia. In June-August of an El Nino it tends to be warmer than normal along the west coast of South America and across southeastern Brazil. The causes of El Nino are not fully understood but climate records show the event has been occurring for hundreds of years. Historically, El Ninos have occurred every two to seven years and can last up to 12 months. Sometimes an unusual cooling of the tropical Pacific - called La Nina - occurs in between. El Nino means little boy in Spanish. The effect was named by Peruvian fishermen who would notice its impact on their catch around Christmastime and called the phenomenon after the baby Jesus.

To: Clappy who wrote (46159)	1/10/2002 6:59:16 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

So, we make excuses for ignoring certain vile & repulsive acts, regardless of the long history of their highly inappropriate behavior................. And we also make excuses for certain individuals who use cruel & insensitive comments to make a point........... Seems we have excuses for a lot of inappropriate behavior for certain types of individuals. Meanwhile, bin_Laden_in_Austin, who just happens to have extreme liberal leanings, is allowed to belittle, berate & maliciously attack a couple of conservative folks with vicious lies & manipulative conjecture without so much as a minor retort from you or polive. That complete silence toward your liberal trouble maker, & now with the insensitive comments toward JW, who just happens to be a conservative individual, coupled with the ongoing litany of excuses justifying it all, is speaking volumes. BTW, anyone who has followed RR's posts surely knows that it is highly unlikely that he is a malicious & insensitive union buster. His post in question hardly gives sufficient information to support such inappropriate conjecture. Unions are an important & integral tool to insure that hard working individuals are paid fair wages & given decent working conditions. However, there still exists a significant portion of unions & union people who wish to extract, for their personal gain, ridiculous wages & working conditions, even at the risk of ruining the company that employs them. "the desire to squeeze or financially hurt coal miners " So, you read RR's post & still felt sorry for those poor union folks.............. Considering RR's comments on the subject (which included physical threats to RR & his family, plus damage to personal property, etc. by union folk), perhaps he was brought in to bring a stubborn (& possibly financially distressed) company & a greedy union to an amicable agreement, even if it meant that the union had to cave on some significant, but irresponsible demands. Yep, those union folks sure needed your empathy & it shows how highly you think of RR to have empathy for folks you don't know with little regard for someone you should know. And bia was right to maliciously attack RR by means of dubious conjecture, because he was trying to "mitigate" the situation, which included telling "CEO's and the Board of Directors things that management doesn't want to tell them themselves", while facing threats of violence, etc., from those poor pitiful union folk. And bia's malicious, albeit false attribution that I believe that all Arab Americans should be shot was unworthy of any retort from you or polive. And polvie was right to use cruel & insensitive remarks to make a point when JW wished death upon a leader who harbors & supports terrorists who kill & maim innocent civilians. And you were right to make excuses for all of these righteous actions. OOF indeed! Ö¿Ö