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El Nino Or NoT? Just like the weather in general, everybody seems to talk about El Nino, but nobody ever does anything about it. Well, maybe that is beginning to change. It now appears that mankind may actually be responsible, (to some extent), for causing this weather phenomenon in the first place. In addition, even if we are indeed part of the conditions that cause El Nino, we certainly are not in a position to prevent it. The best we can hope for is to predict it’s arrival and estimate it’s strength. El Nino has for as long as we can determine, been a regular if somewhat unusual climatic event. It usually makes its arrival around mid-winter. The Peruvian fisherman who first took notice of it called it “ El Nino” in honor of the Christmas Christ child.