Chico Harlan
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Aug
Chico Harlan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So they would call it El Nino de Navidad, basically Christ's child.
And uh they probably thought it was just some supernatural thing.
They would have never suspected that it was part of this global phenomenon.
But sure enough, the fingerprints of El Nino were all over civilizations going back millennia.
There's all sorts of theories.
I mean, you can kind of have a fun academic time with this, that it's influenced the rise and fall of pharaohs going back to Egyptian times.
You know, I've even read a paper that it had a hand in the French Revolution.
Wow.
I wouldn't necessarily sign my name to that, but uh
What we do know is that in 1877 there was a really big one, still before we understood what El Niño was, and that this one coincided with a huge famine that played out in multiple countries.
It was a famine that killed 50 million people, estimated, about three to four percent of the population.
One paper that I I was reading called it arguably the worst environmental disaster to ever befall humanity.
There were droughts at the same time in Ethiopia, China, Egypt, Morocco, Brazil.
India was especially hard hit.
Correct.
In some places there was already drought and even bad drought.
beforehand, but then El Nino came and exacerbated those circumstances.
And at the time, like nobody could have believed that some phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean was playing out with these global consequences.
I mean people living near the Pacific coast of South America had been aware that there was this weird pattern that would play out every two to seven years.
Yes, but only in the nineteen fifties, nineteen sixties did scientists start to put together the idea that something was happening, that these events were connected.
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