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In 1997 and early on 1998, one of the very most powerful El Ninos ever before registered disrupted weather patterns all around the globe. Europe endured through a record freeze as the North american West was strike with significant floods and snowstorms; in the American Pacific, in the mean time, some island nations literally proceeded to go bone dried and had to have normal water flown in on move planes.
Within this dazzlingly original booklet, archaeologist Brian Fagan demonstrates such effects aren't new: El Nino has been disrupting weather patterns on and off for at least 5,000 years, sometimes with catastrophic results on civilizations. El Nino-driven droughts have brought on the collapse of dynasties in Egypt; El Nino monsoon failures have triggered ancient famines in India; and El Nino floods have destroyed whole civilizations in Peru and transformed the course of Western european exploration. These happenings were not isolated but acquired lasting impact on the later course of these civilizations for years and years.
