El Niño in History: Storming through the ages by César
Caviedes, University Press of Florida, $24.95, ISBN 0813020999
THE rogue ocean current El Niño has a hidden hand in human affairs,
says César Caviedes. Its history unfolds like a Greek tragedy. However
hard the protagonists fight it, destiny rules.
According to Caviedes, empires from Asia to the Andes have risen and fallen
at its whim. General El Niño defeated Hitler at Stalingrad. Nearly a
thousand kilometres north and 130 years earlier, the wiles of his sister La
Niña, the flipside of this climatic phenomenon, defeated…
