If it is
true, as some studies suggest for example, that El Nino events become more frequent and greater in
magnitude due to anthropogenic forcing (this is not yet a settled issue), then,
given the established relationship between the El Nino / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the extratropical Pacific / North American atmospheric circulation, we might expect increased baroclinicity and greater storminess over a substantial region of the mid-latitude North Pacific ocean and neighboring western U.S..
It
gives the Russians, the haters, the xenophobes a louder voice and the tools to disguise their
true identities, but it can also amplify sincere, empathetic voices and knit together a community — an overused but underappreciated phenomenon — without which the students» organization on a scale of this
magnitude would have been impossible.