El Niño and La Niña might seem irrelevant, but they can be life changing

Most things that impact on the dynamics that change the earth’s climate are remote and seemingly irrelevant to most peoples’ lives and so easily mentally dispensed with or not even thought about.

Among those are El Niño and La Niña for they are largely unseen and yet have consequences so real that people can die and entire industries disabled.

A story from the CSIRO entitled: “Explainer: El Niño and La Niña” helps us understand a little about this complex and yet critical happening in the world’s oceans, particularly as it impacts on the weather in eastern Australia.

“The simplest way to understand El Niño and La Niña is through the sloshing around of warm water in the ocean,” the CSIRO says.