The portion is the "NINO3.4 region" of the equatorial Pacific, bordered by the coordinates of 5S-5N, 170W-120W.
This region is used by meteorological agencies to define when an El Niño weather event is happening.
After peaking in February 2016, the average temperature in that region quickly fell back to the 1990 to 2015 average by May 18, 2016.
This 2015/2016 EL Nino was very similar to the 1997/1998 El Nino.
In fact, the 2016 temperature peak was just a few tenths of a degree C. warmer than the 1998 El Nino temperature peak, 18 years earlier.
A few tenths of a degree difference is smaller than the margin of error in the measurements, in my opinion.
There was a flat temperature trend from about 2003 to 2015, when global warming was not happening -- it was just a figment of over-active leftist imaginations in that period.
The temporary, local El Nino sea surface temperature peak does increase the global average temperature, even though it has nothing to do with the satanic gas that leftists falsely believe controls the climate -- carbon dioxide.
Earth's atmosphere and oceans are never in equilibrium -- temperatures are always changing.
So why do people care about an average temperature … a very complex statistic, hard to measure, with a big margin of error, that has barely changed in the past 150 years?
No one lives in an average temperature.
No one knows what a "normal" average temperature is.
The average temperature is unknown for 99.999% of earth's history.
So no one should care about the average climate.
And no taxpayers should have to pay one penny to hire government employees to calculate that number.
There's more warming in the first few hours after sunrise every day outside your home … than the warming of the average temperature of our planet in the past 150 years!
