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I do understand but I don’t think La Nina makes any sense. El Nino, the event occurs around christmas. El Nino is the child, the one born on Christmas. Who is L

I do understand but I don’t think La Nina makes any sense. El Nino, the event occurs around christmas. El Nino is the child, the one born on Christmas. Who is La Nina? What is opposite of the child, Pontius Pilot, Santa Maria, Buddha? Maybe the second coming will be Christina and it will all fall into place.

conductr 3y ago
Warm is opposite of Cold and Boy used to be seen as opposite of Girl. It would probably not be named as such in current times as gender has some baggage these days.
- sangnoir 3y ago
  > It would probably not be named as such in current times as gender has some baggage these days Language has always been fluid: from your example of language from simpler times: 'girl' comes from Middle English gerle/girle/gyrle which meant a young person of any gender
adolph 3y ago
The name La Niña originates from Spanish for "the girl", by analogy to El Niño, meaning "the boy". In the past, it was also called an anti-El Niño[1] and El Viejo, meaning "the old man." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1a From the excellent The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C Mann: Andean peoples had long known that every few years the coastal climate shifted dramatically, with warm downpours inundating the cold, dry coast. Because the rains usually began around Christmas, Peruvians referred to them as El Niño, a Spanish nickname for the Christ Child. In 1891 three Peruvians—an engineer, a geographer, and a naturalist—separately figured out how El Niños worked. During these times, the Humboldt Current abruptly weakens, allowing warm equatorial water to surge close to the coast; the warm water heats up the normally cold coastal air, which allows it to hold more moisture than usual, which, in turn, causes heavy rainfall on the desert shore. . . . a climatic system that extended across much of the Pacific and influenced the weather as far north as Canada. But the worst effects occurred in coastal Peru, where floods washed away railroads, wiped out farms, and destroyed power stations, blacking out cities. Thousands of “dead guano birds” were incidental damage. El Niño, Murphy said, “brings sickness and death to the population of the Humboldt Current.” https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Prophet-Remarkable-Scientists-Tomorrows/dp/0307961699 https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Prophet-Remarkable-Scientists-...
hcks 3y ago
The whole cringe around the name of the thing is enough to know it’s probably not real in any practical sense

conductr 3y ago

Warm is opposite of Cold and Boy used to be seen as opposite of Girl. It would probably not be named as such in current times as gender has some baggage these days.

sangnoir 3y ago
> It would probably not be named as such in current times as gender has some baggage these days Language has always been fluid: from your example of language from simpler times: 'girl' comes from Middle English gerle/girle/gyrle which meant a young person of any gender

adolph 3y ago

The name La Niña originates from Spanish for "the girl", by analogy to El Niño, meaning "the boy". In the past, it was also called an anti-El Niño[1] and El Viejo, meaning "the old man." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1a From the excellent The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C Mann: Andean peoples had long known that every few years the coastal climate shifted dramatically, with warm downpours inundating the cold, dry coast. Because the rains usually began around Christmas, Peruvians referred to them as El Niño, a Spanish nickname for the Christ Child. In 1891 three Peruvians—an engineer, a geographer, and a naturalist—separately figured out how El Niños worked. During these times, the Humboldt Current abruptly weakens, allowing warm equatorial water to surge close to the coast; the warm water heats up the normally cold coastal air, which allows it to hold more moisture than usual, which, in turn, causes heavy rainfall on the desert shore. . . . a climatic system that extended across much of the Pacific and influenced the weather as far north as Canada. But the worst effects occurred in coastal Peru, where floods washed away railroads, wiped out farms, and destroyed power stations, blacking out cities. Thousands of “dead guano birds” were incidental damage. El Niño, Murphy said, “brings sickness and death to the population of the Humboldt Current.” https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Prophet-Remarkable-Scientists-Tomorrows/dp/0307961699 https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Prophet-Remarkable-Scientists-...

hcks 3y ago

The whole cringe around the name of the thing is enough to know it’s probably not real in any practical sense