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24 June 2000

El Niño has a long and violent history. It killed more people in 1789
and 1877 than in 1998—and even more during the Little Ice Age. You can’t
blame everything on global warming. But, as Richard Grove and John Chappell
amply demonstrate in El Niño: History and crisis, the outlook
remains disturbing. Published by White Horse Press, £35, ISBN 1874267421.

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