Part 3: How El Nino Choked Civilisations and Stirred Revolution | The Rearview Podcast
Could a warm patch of water in the Pacific have influenced both the French Revolution and some of India’s deadliest famines? Instead, the impacts are now felt in subtler but still powerful ways: food prices, rural incomes, reservoirs, electricity generation and the wider economy.Finally, the hosts explain why forecasting the Indian monsoon remains one of science’s greatest challenges. El Niño is only one player in a complex system, joined by the Indian Ocean Dipole and the Madden–Julian Oscillation.
- ▪Could a warm patch of water in the Pacific have influenced both the French Revolution and some of India’s deadliest famines?
- ▪Instead, the impacts are now felt in subtler but still powerful ways: food prices, rural incomes, reservoirs, electricity generation and the wider economy.Finally, the hosts explain why forecasting the Indian monsoon remains one of science’
- ▪El Niño is only one player in a complex system, joined by the Indian Ocean Dipole and the Madden–Julian Oscillation.
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Could a warm patch of water in the Pacific have influenced both the French Revolution and some of India’s deadliest famines? In this concluding episode of the series, Jacob and Sobhana trace the extraordinary historical reach of El Niño, revealing how a climate phenomenon thousands of kilometres away has left its imprint on societies, economies and even moments that changed the course of history.The episode revisits the devastating El Niño of 1877–78, when simultaneous droughts across India, China and Brazil unfolded as the world was becoming the first truly globalised economy.
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