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  I say chaps, there must be a climate conference coming up:
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/apr/13/climate-change-millions-starvation-scientists?CMP=twt_fd
  
  What warming world I ask? Temperatures have remained the same for the past sixteen years.
  What planet are they one? ...............Venus?
  Don't these people read academic papers or something?
  
  Table 1. Chronology of El Niño and Drought/Famine2 in Ethiopia
  El Niño Years Drought/Famine Regions
  1539-41 1543-1562 Hararghe
  1618-19 1618 Northern Ethiopia
  1828 1828-29 Shewa
  1864 1880 Tigray and Gondar
  1874 1876-78 Tigray and Afar
  1880 1880 Tigray and Gondar
  1887-89 1888-1892* Ethiopia
  1899-1900 1899-1900 Ethiopia
  1911-1912 1913-1914 Northern Ethiopia
  1918-19 1920-22 Ethiopia
  1930-32 1932-1934 Ethiopia
  1953 1953 Tigray and Wollo
  1957-1958 1957-1958 Tigray and Wollo
  1965 1964-66 Tigray and Wollo
  1972-1973 1973-1974 Tigray and Wollo
  1982-1983 1983-1984 Ethiopia
  1986-87** 1987-1988** Ethiopia
  1991-92 1990-92 Ethiopia
  1993 1993-94 Tigray, Wollo, Addis
  
  Sources: Quinn and Neal (1987, 14451); Degefu (1987, 30-31);
  *Nicholls 1993; Webb and Braun; **Ayalew 1996.

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