The Road to Paris is a web site created by the ICSU, "...a non-governmental organization representing a global membership that includes both national scientific bodies (121 National Members representing 141 countries) and International Scientific Unions (30 Members)," founded in 1931. If the ICSU had not existed when the UN was formed, the UN would have formed it. Think of the ICSU as the UN of Science. More or less.
(Follow Road to Paris on Twitter.)
Anyway, Road to Paris refers to the 2015 international meetings on climate change, and the purpose of the web site is to provide excellent information about climate change, up to date, so those engaged in that process, either as direct participants or as onlookers, will be well informed.
"Fishing in pink waters: How scientists unraveled the El Niño mystery" is an amazing piece of work written by Daniel Gross (I made minuscule contributions), looking at the history of the science of the El Nino Southern Oscillation, which is one of the most important climate or weather related things on this planet. This is timely, because we are expecting an El Niño to form over the winter. Maybe. Well, eventually we will have an El Niño. (It has been an unusually long time since the last strong one.)
Please visit this web page, read it, enjoy it (it is highly interactive), and spread it around.
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Thanks, Greg. That was a nice article.
Australia's BoM were also on the ball from the look of things, back in 1997.
http://web.archive.org/web/19970125160754/http://www.bom.gov.au/climate…
http://web.archive.org/web/19970125161236/http://www.bom.gov.au/climate…