El nino

What is El Nino, and what causes it to occur?
Globally, most countries have just started to experience El Nino, but how many knows what it is and how it comes about? It is true that most of the articles I read here in Kenya, mostly tells of the history of El Nino occurrence. El Nino has been in existence for quite some time, and currently the meteorologists understand it better and able to predict when it would occur, possibly the end of it and maybe the intensity.
What is El Nino?
El Nino comes about as climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean that has an impact on the day-to-day atmospheric conditions globally. It occurs when sea-surface temperatures of Pacific Ocean warms, this affects the atmospheric cycle, temperatures and the rainfall across the globe. El Nino is a Spanish terminology that means "Christ Child," the name given to the phenomenon given the period that it occurs, which is towards December. The strongest El Nino experience was in 1997-98. However, there have been El Nino 2002-03, 2006-07, and 2009-10 however, the intensity was lesser than in 1997. Therefore, most of the people did not notice.
What causes El Nino?
El Nino occurs when trade winds from the west weaken and begin to change their directions. The trade winds would change their direction towards the eastern coast of the Pacific Ocean. El Nino is a natural disaster; however, some scientists believe there is a connection between the phenomenon and global warming that is a component of Climate Change. It is noticeable that the frequency of El Nino occurrence is increasing to be rapid, and maybe it is because of the effect of the greenhouse gases that increases the warming of the trade winds. A common greenhouse gas known for causing global warming and climate change is Carbon dioxide. How global warming and Climate Change would increase the intensity of El Nino would be discussed in the next article.
The warm wind in the east causes the differences in atmospheric temperatures between the West and the East. Given the reduction strength of the wind in the West, the water in the west in the Pacific Ocean moves to the east, which piles up in the east and rainfall begins causing floods in those areas and other effects.
It may be taken lightly, but climate change is one of the major problems that the world is trying to deal with. If at all, climate change and global warming is connected as a contributor to intensify El Nino occurrences, and then the efforts in reducing their causes should be given priority or else, we would be experiencing a lot of impacts they cause, including sea-level rise, biodiversity loss and many others.