El Nino

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growth
of algae, which in trun, collapses the food chain. Thus, leaving our
worlds subsistence and commercial fishermen with out food and money.

With the already descendeing food chain on our earth, the warming water
also effects the atmosphere, resulting in more extreme temperatures, more
rain, and more drought periods, costing more money to our already debted
economy, and the world.

An example (demonstrated here by alaska) brought about by the extreme
temperatures was during the 1976-77 el nino, which brought severe cold to
the polar regions. The polar regions were so cold, that the bears in
those regions did not hibernate. Studies have shown in alaska, that there
has been increased amounts of precipitation through out the southern
fringe of alaska from Juneau to Annette Island. Studies have also shown
that the interior parts of alaska, during an El Nino winter recieve normal
to below precipitation levels, resulting in somewhat of a drought.

An El Nino can have various ...

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