Timothy Birdnow

The latest climate doom porn.

Yes, we are likely to have a very powerful El Nino this year and the Gang Green has decided to recruit it into their service. In bygone days warmer than average temperatures have been blamed on El Nino and hurt the dooomsayers so they are now co-opting it, saying the El Nino is a "Super El Nino" and that it's caused by - you guessed it - Global Warming!

Of course we didn't even know El Nino existed until 1892 when Spanish sailors noticed it while sailing over Christmas (El Nino means "the boy" as in the Christ child). It got the name when Captain Camilo Carrillo told the Lima Geographical Society that sailors so named the phenomenon.

The ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation - has only been monitored since the twentieth century, so to speak about the "worst ever recorded" is to use a puny dataset indeed.

So this is just more climate porn. It's designed to terrify people who do not understand that the warming as we leave the Little Ice Age in our rear-view mirrors is going to see the ENSO intensify a bit. We may get some hotter weather on occasion (much as happens in the Southern Hemisphere on a more regular basis than in the more climatically stable northern) but it's just natural variability. But then, every piece of unusual weather gets blamed on "climate change".

This reminds me of the "Polar Vortex" scare of a few years ago; people didn't know much about it so the Gang Green turned it into another weapon in their endless arsenal of stupidity.

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