What is El Niño, and why does it have nothing to do with summer heat in Europe?
The rise in sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, known as El Niño, is often mistakenly linked to summer heat in Europe.
Andrea Barolini
Contributor
I live in France, I love hiking in the mountains, Kapuściński's stories, snow, passionate people, Calvino's descriptions, De Gregori's songs, Britanny, Keynes, chili and the Marmottan Museum. I've been an economics and environmental journalist for ten years, in the hope to throw a stone into the pond: writing to echo the echo is useless. Having said this, my ideal afternoon is that passed cooking for a dinner with my friends.
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“Nothing grows out of diamonds, but out of dung the flowers grow” (Fabrizio De André)
The rise in sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, known as El Niño, is often mistakenly linked to summer heat in Europe.
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