Название: Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations
Автор: Brian Fagan
Издательство: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465011217
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 2,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
In 1997 and early 1998, one of the most powerful El Ninos ever recorded disrupted weather patterns all over the world. Europe suffered through a record freeze as the American West was hit with massive floods and snowstorms; in the western Pacific, meanwhile, some island nations literally went bone dry and had to have water flown in on transport planes.