Hmm. "The 1982-1983 El Niño was the strongest and most devastating of the century, perhaps the worst in recorded history." https://www.whoi.edu/science/B/peopl

Hmm. "The 1982-1983 El Niño was the strongest and most devastating of the century, perhaps the worst in recorded history." https://www.whoi.edu/science/B/people/kamaral/1982-1983ElNino.html https://www.whoi.edu/science/B/people/kamaral/1982-1983ElNin... So maybe the data starts there in order to distort it, or to balance it, or maybe we started recording data properly in that year because El Niño got alarming. Seems relevant somehow anyway.