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Gman

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7. Warmer Pacific water was first reported

Wed Dec 30, 2015, 11:55 PM

Dec 2015

A couple of years ago. I'm not an expert, but it seems to correlate to warmer Arctic waters and a warmer Humboldt Current and would be global warming related. El Nino waters are much further south and much closer to the equator. There may have been worse El Ninos in the past. We've only been keeping records since the 1950's.

I'm not going to debate the issue with you though. I'll leave that to the experts.

BTW, it's not shown nor is it thought that global warming causes an El Niño event

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