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1953-1966

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Year Locale Event Social Effects Source

1966 NASA Lunar Mapping Project Lots of imagery stored away Great Views of Earth/Moon 2008 Update

1966 Sahel Present drought period begins Famine soon follows/kills animals/people Trager

1966 Global Food crisis Production drops/Africa/Lat.America/FarEast Trager

1966 India 1965-67 Drought Famine Imports grain/rice eaters riots /1.5 million die Trager

1966 Alaska King crab fishery peaks Central fishing area begins decline Trager

1966 Central California Major Flood/Coastal Valleys Salinas River Floods

1966 Russia Record grain harvest Ý Trager

1966 Firenze, Italia Arno & Po Rivers Flood City innundated, 30,000 homeless Nash

1966 USA Endangered Species Protection Act Precedent setting legislation/global protection Congress

1965-67 Gulf of Alaska Halibut biomass lowest Recruitment f(wind speed/dir/surf currents) Parker

1965-66 Costa Rica Malarial outbreak Mosquito born /ENSO rainfalls Epstein

1965-66 West Africa Trade winds decline Coastal fishing declines/rainfall declines Freon

1965 North Sea Peak herring catch Catch begins precipitous decline/overfished too Glantz

1965 Pakistan/India Crop Failure/Famine Monsoon rains fail/drought Trager

1965 Russia Wheat crop fails Forced to pay in Gold/Australia/Canada Trager

1965 Colorado, Montana, Kansas, Wyoming, New Mexico June Floods Arkansas /Platte Rivers innundate big cities such as Denver and Dodge City Nash

1965 Florida Louisiana Mississippi Hurricane "Betsy" 23 Die Trager

1965 Ganges Delta, East Pakistan Cyclone 12,000 die, 5 million homes whiped out Nash

1965-94 Eastern USA Aedes albopictus/egypti vectors Outbreaks/Dengue/equine encephalitis=El Niño Epstein

1965-66 Pacific wide ENSO warm event Substantial records of climate anomalies Quinn

1965 So./central India Very Dry monsoon Strong negative rainfall anomalies/-SOI Kalidas/Sinha

1964 Burbank, cal. Mud slides Post forest fire rainfall=slides Trager

1964 Eastern Tropical Pacific ENSO cool event Upper ocean low heat content Sharp/McLain

1963 USA Corn production peaks 1 st commercial nuclear reactor online Oster Creek Trager

1963 Japan Typhoons detroy crops Force food imports Trager

1963 USSR/China crops fail Both forced to seek western grain Trager

1963-1973 China Cold, dry period Ý Feng et al.

1963 Pacific basin Low SOI/ little evidence of El Niño Ý COADS

1962-63 Britain Cold Winter spell Frozen pipes/misery Trager

1962 Germany, North Sea Coast Hurricane winds create Floods, Elbe floods, Hamburg, where 281 died, 62 died elsewhere, half million homeless Nash

1962 Florida Freeze Citrus industry devastated again Trager

1961 Eastern Tropical Pacific ENSO cool event Upper ocean low heat content Sharp/McLain

1959-60 China Catastrophic crop failres Grain production < 1952 levels Trager

1960 China Warm year Ý Feng et al.

1960 Chile The world's strongest recorded earthquake devastates Chile, with a reading of 9.5 on the Richter scale. A tsunami 30ft (10m) high eliminates entire villages in Chile and kills 61 hundreds of miles away in Hawaii. News

1960 Leeward Islands, - Puerto Rico, to Gulf of Saint Lawrence Hurricane Donna Due to more accurate early warning system, only 143 died Nash

1959-61 China Warm/Dry years Drought, and the story behind Mao's policies of the late 1950's, which led to the starvation of tens of millions - back to the Good Old Daze of cannibalism, etc.

Dali L. Yang

1958 Japan Typhoon Vera Death toll reached nearly 5000, with 1.5 million homeless. NOAA

1958 Northeastern USA Blizzard ~500 persond killed in storm Nash

1957-58 Pacific wide ENSO warm event Substantial records of climate anomalies Quinn

1957 China Cereal grain production 8%/year growth since 1950=200mill.tons Trager

1957 China Great Leap Forward Insect/vermin pests are virtually eliminated Trager

1955 Antarctica Crabeater seal dieoff Huge population/mild climate/virus Laws&Taylor

1955 Central California Coast Floods/mud slides
Roads closed/Tourism fails
Trager

1955 India/Pakistan Monsoon, eight rivers overflowed their beds More than 300,000 were evacuated by paratroopers; 10,000 villages were whiped out, and many tens of thousands are believed to have died Nash

1955 Tampico, Mexico Hurricanes Glady, Hilda, Janet The series of three storms devastated the area - Over 300 died Nash

1955 Eastern Tropical Pacific ENSO cool event Upper ocean low heat content Sharp/McLain

1954 North Atlantic Surface Temperatures peak Cooling trend begins/species shifts Sharp/McLain

1954 Northeast USA Storm from Cape verde Islands grows into Hurricane Carol, and devastates Northeast USA Within six days, 60 killed, 1000 injured, and $461 million in damages Nash

1954 Iran Great Flood Approximately 10,000 casualties. NOAA

1954 Hakodate, Japan 15 Powerful Typhoons in the year September 26th, the most powerful overturned the ferry Toya Maru, washing crew and passengers overboard. In total , more than 1,600 died from this storm, alone Nash

1954 China Hwai and Yangtze Rivers flood Kills >40,000, Crops fail/Famine - Mao's 1st Five Year Plan collapses in chaos Nash

1954-56 USA Midwest Drought continues Crop prices propped up by gov. Trager

1953 North Sea Severe winter storms Dikes burst/100,000 homeless/1,800 die Trager

1953 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn

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Year	Locale	Event	Social Effects	Source
1966	NASA Lunar Mapping Project	Lots of imagery stored away	Great Views of Earth/Moon	2008 Update
1966	Sahel	Present drought period begins	Famine soon follows/kills animals/people	Trager
1966	Global	Food crisis	Production drops/Africa/Lat.America/FarEast	Trager
1966	India	1965-67 Drought Famine	Imports grain/rice eaters riots /1.5 million die	Trager
1966	Alaska	King crab fishery peaks	Central fishing area begins decline	Trager
1966	Central California	Major Flood/Coastal Valleys	Salinas River Floods
1966	Russia	Record grain harvest	Ý	Trager
1966	Firenze, Italia	Arno & Po Rivers Flood	City innundated, 30,000 homeless	Nash
1966	USA	Endangered Species Protection Act	Precedent setting legislation/global protection	Congress
1965-67	Gulf of Alaska	Halibut biomass lowest	Recruitment f(wind speed/dir/surf currents)	Parker
1965-66	Costa Rica	Malarial outbreak	Mosquito born /ENSO rainfalls	Epstein
1965-66	West Africa	Trade winds decline	Coastal fishing declines/rainfall declines	Freon
1965	North Sea	Peak herring catch	Catch begins precipitous decline/overfished too	Glantz
1965	Pakistan/India	Crop Failure/Famine	Monsoon rains fail/drought	Trager
1965	Russia	Wheat crop fails	Forced to pay in Gold/Australia/Canada	Trager
1965	Colorado, Montana, Kansas, Wyoming, New Mexico	June Floods	Arkansas /Platte Rivers innundate big cities such as Denver and Dodge City	Nash
1965	Florida Louisiana Mississippi	Hurricane "Betsy"	23 Die	Trager
1965	Ganges Delta, East Pakistan	Cyclone	12,000 die, 5 million homes whiped out	Nash
1965-94	Eastern USA	Aedes albopictus/egypti vectors	Outbreaks/Dengue/equine encephalitis=El Niño	Epstein
1965-66	Pacific wide	ENSO warm event	Substantial records of climate anomalies	Quinn
1965	So./central India	Very Dry monsoon	Strong negative rainfall anomalies/-SOI	Kalidas/Sinha
1964	Burbank, cal.	Mud slides	Post forest fire rainfall=slides	Trager
1964	Eastern Tropical Pacific	ENSO cool event	Upper ocean low heat content	Sharp/McLain
1963	USA	Corn production peaks	1 st commercial nuclear reactor online Oster Creek	Trager
1963	Japan	Typhoons detroy crops	Force food imports	Trager
1963	USSR/China	crops fail	Both forced to seek western grain	Trager
1963-1973	China	Cold, dry period	Ý	Feng et al.
1963	Pacific basin	Low SOI/ little evidence of El Niño	Ý	COADS
1962-63	Britain	Cold Winter spell	Frozen pipes/misery	Trager
1962	Germany, North Sea Coast	Hurricane winds create Floods,	Elbe floods, Hamburg, where 281 died, 62 died elsewhere, half million homeless	Nash
1962	Florida	Freeze	Citrus industry devastated again	Trager
1961	Eastern Tropical Pacific	ENSO cool event	Upper ocean low heat content	Sharp/McLain
1959-60	China	Catastrophic crop failres	Grain production < 1952 levels	Trager
1960	China	Warm year	Ý	Feng et al.
1960	Chile	The world's strongest recorded earthquake devastates Chile, with a reading of 9.5 on the Richter scale.	A tsunami 30ft (10m) high eliminates entire villages in Chile and kills 61 hundreds of miles away in Hawaii.	News
1960	Leeward Islands, - Puerto Rico, to Gulf of Saint Lawrence	Hurricane Donna	Due to more accurate early warning system, only 143 died	Nash
1959-61	China	Warm/Dry years	Drought, and the story behind Mao's policies of the late 1950's, which led to the starvation of tens of millions - back to the Good Old Daze of cannibalism, etc.	Dali L. Yang
1958	Japan	Typhoon Vera	Death toll reached nearly 5000, with 1.5 million homeless.	NOAA
1958	Northeastern USA	Blizzard	~500 persond killed in storm	Nash
1957-58	Pacific wide	ENSO warm event	Substantial records of climate anomalies	Quinn
1957	China	Cereal grain production	8%/year growth since 1950=200mill.tons	Trager
1957	China	Great Leap Forward	Insect/vermin pests are virtually eliminated	Trager
1955	Antarctica	Crabeater seal dieoff	Huge population/mild climate/virus	Laws&Taylor
1955	Central California Coast	Floods/mud slides	Roads closed/Tourism fails	Trager
1955	India/Pakistan	Monsoon, eight rivers overflowed their beds	More than 300,000 were evacuated by paratroopers; 10,000 villages were whiped out, and many tens of thousands are believed to have died	Nash
1955	Tampico, Mexico	Hurricanes Glady, Hilda, Janet	The series of three storms devastated the area - Over 300 died	Nash
1955	Eastern Tropical Pacific	ENSO cool event	Upper ocean low heat content	Sharp/McLain
1954	North Atlantic	Surface Temperatures peak	Cooling trend begins/species shifts	Sharp/McLain
1954	Northeast USA	Storm from Cape verde Islands grows into Hurricane Carol, and devastates Northeast USA	Within six days, 60 killed, 1000 injured, and $461 million in damages	Nash
1954	Iran	Great Flood	Approximately 10,000 casualties.	NOAA
1954	Hakodate, Japan	15 Powerful Typhoons in the year	September 26th, the most powerful overturned the ferry Toya Maru, washing crew and passengers overboard. In total , more than 1,600 died from this storm, alone	Nash
1954	China	Hwai and Yangtze Rivers flood	Kills >40,000, Crops fail/Famine - Mao's 1st Five Year Plan collapses in chaos	Nash
1954-56	USA Midwest	Drought continues	Crop prices propped up by gov.	Trager
1953	North Sea	Severe winter storms	Dikes burst/100,000 homeless/1,800 die	Trager
1953	ENSO Warm Event	Records/Proxies of El Niño	Ý	Quinn