Local warming Many of the weather-related disasters of the last 20 years originate with the El Nino phenomenon in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which is now seen as a pump driving some of the ongoing climactic change.
過去二十年的許多氣候災變，啟動於東太平洋的「聖嬰」現象，也被視為攪動局部氣候變遷的幫浦。