El Nino and Global Warming

Ben Kirtman of the U of Miami discusses two flavors of El Nino, an eastern Pacific one, and a central Pacific one. His prediction is that global warming will increase the incidence of the less desirable central Pacific El Nino. He further discusses what impacts he expects this will have on Australia and the US, including US landfall of Atlantic hurricanes. The original article was published in the September 24 issue of the journal Nature.