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Prepare yourself for the extended summer season and scanty rainfall along with rise in food items this year too as the <keyword id="2847281" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Australian-Meteorological-Department">Australian Meteorological Department</keyword> predicted on Tuesday that the tropical Pacific is in the early stages of the El Nino weather phenomenon. 
 The bureau’s current observations tell that India's southwest monsoon will be deficient and it has already been predicted by the <keyword id="6355166" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="India-Meteorological-Department">India Meteorological Department</keyword> in April, as per an Economic Times report. 
 
The monsoon season runs from June to September in India and is the main source of water for the country's agriculture sector. This will affect the agriculture-based industries and the food industry. 
 
In the wake of poor rainfall last year and unseasonal rains and snowfall in recent months, India's revival plans and economic growth will hampered. 
 
Meanwhile, El Nino refers to the warming of Pacific waters and is seen as having a wide-ranging impact on global weather. 
 According to the Australian weather office, the El Nino Southern Oscillation or ENSO indicators have shown a steady trend toward El Nino levels since the start of the year. The temperatures of sea surface in the tropical <keyword id="90495" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pacific-Ocean">Pacific Ocean</keyword> have also exceeded El Nino thresholds recently. 
 
Moreover, such changes are also supported by warmer-than-average waters below the surface which will worsen the weather condition. 
 Trade winds have remained consistently weaker than average since the start of the year. "These indicators suggest the tropical Pacific Ocean and <keyword id="6366415" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="atmosphere">atmosphere</keyword> have started to couple and reinforce each other, indicating El Nino is likely to persist in the coming months," the Australian weather office said. 
 
International climate models surveyed by the bureau indicate that tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures are likely to remain above El Nino thresholds through the coming winter and at least into spring. 
 
(Image : Reuters)

​El Nino on its way again

Brace yourself for an extended summer season and scanty rainfall along with rise in prices of food items this year as the Australian Meteorological Department predicted on Tuesday that the tropical Pacific was in early stages of the El Nino weather phenomenon. 
 The bureau’s current observations state that India's south-west monsoon will be deficient and it has already been predicted by the <keyword id="6355166" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="India-Meteorological-Department">India Meteorological Department</keyword> in April, as per an Economic Times report. 
 
El Nino refers to the warming of Pacific waters and is seen as having a wide-ranging impact on global weather. 
 This comes as bad news for India as the <keyword id="390879" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="monsoon-season">monsoon season</keyword>, which runs from June to September in the country, is the main source of water for the agriculture sector. This will affect the <keyword id="2848024" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Agriculture-based-industries">agriculture-based industries</keyword> and the food industry. 
 
In the wake of poor rainfall last year and unseasonal rains and snowfall in recent months, India's revival plans and economic growth will also be hampered. 
 
According to the Australian weather office, the El Nino Southern Oscillation ( ENSO) indicators have shown a steady trend toward El Nino levels since the start of the year. The temperatures of sea surface in the tropical Pacific Ocean have also exceeded El Nino thresholds recently. 
 
Moreover, such changes are also supported by warmer-than-average waters below the surface which will worsen the weather condition. 
 
Trade winds have remained consistently weaker than average since the start of the year. "These indicators suggest the tropical Pacific Ocean and atmosphere have started to couple and reinforce each other, indicating El Nino is likely to persist in the coming months," the Australian weather office said. 
 
International climate models surveyed by the bureau indicate that tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures are likely to remain above El Nino thresholds through the coming winter and at least into spring. 
 
(Image:Reuters)

El Nino brings bad news for India. Here’s how

In its first forecast for 2015, the <keyword id="55209" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Indian-Meteorological-Department">Indian Meteorological Department</keyword> has predicted a below normal <keyword id="6358301" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Monsoon">monsoon</keyword> for the country. The forecaster, however, did not predict an overall dry spell like in June, 2009 when the rainy season turned out to be the driest in nearly four decades. 
 
"Not looking at over spread of drought in India, " an IMD official said. 
 Bangladesh and its South Asian neighbours are also expected to see below average rainfall in 2015 due to the impact of an <keyword id="51549" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="El-Nino">El Nino</keyword> weather pattern, which can bring on a dry spell in the region, <keyword id="821951" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="a-weather">a weather</keyword> expert said on Wednesday. 
 "The entire region is prone to below average rainfall this year except <keyword id="6355572" type="COUNTRY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Sri-Lanka">Sri Lanka</keyword> and Maldives," OP Sreejith told Reuters, after releasing the consensus forecast of the South Asian Climate Outlook Forum, a group of global weather experts affiliated to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). 
 
Global models show an El Nino condition has been established in the Pacific Ocean but there is uncertainty about its intensity, Sreejith said. 
 "There is consensus about the potential for adverse impacts of El Nino on the region's monsoon rainfall," said Sreejith, a <keyword id="196468" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="meteorologist">meteorologist</keyword> with the Indian weather office. 
 
El Nino, or a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific, can prompt dry spells in Southeast Asia and Australia and heavy rains in South America, curbing food crop output. 
 
In India, a strong El Nino could result in droughts during the monsoon season and hit crops from rice to sugar and cotton in the country which is one of the world's leading producers of these farm commodities. 
India's monsoon was hit by an El Nino in 2009 when the four-month long rainy season that starts in June turned out to be the driest in nearly four decades. 
 
Last week, the Australian weather office evaluated at least a 70 percent chance of an El Nino weather pattern emerging as early as June.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6354576" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="facebook">Facebook</keyword> banned news outlets from sharing articles in <keyword id="6355478" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="australia">Australia</keyword> in protest at potential regulation.</li><li>Experts said the removal of reliable news sources could exacerbate misinformation around the pandemic.</li><li>Experts bashed Facebook as nothing but 'cute cats and <keyword id="1379614" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="conspiracy-theories">conspiracy theories</keyword>' following the decision. </li></ul>Facebook is blocking Australian users from sharing or viewing news content on its platform in protest <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/australia-to-make-google-and-facebook-pay-for-news-content-2020-7">at prospective regulation</a> - leading local news media and critics to warn of a potential uptick in misinformation.In an unprecedented move, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-bans-australian-users-from-sharing-news-stories-2021-2">Facebook on Wednesday began restricting</a> Australian news organizations from sharing links to their journalism on their pages.The upshot is that no Australian user will see news articles from domestic news pages or outlets in their news feeds. All non-Australian users are unable to see posts from major local outlets such as The Australian, ABC Australia, and News.com.au.<div type="image" title="australia news block screenshot" height="667" width="1380" msid="81090588" hostid="261"></div>A host of public service institutions - including the fire department, the Bureau of Meteorology, and some health agencies - have also been caught up in the wider news ban and are currently prevented from posting at all.<h2>'Facebook will become little more than cute cats'</h2>While Facebook is responding to the imminent threat of regulation that would force it to pay news publishers for linking to their content, its angry critics claim the ban is irresponsible while the pandemic continues."Without fact-based news to anchor it, Facebook will become little more than cute cats and conspiracy theories," said activist Peter Lewis, director of the Australia Institute's Centre for Responsible <keyword id="6355118" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="technology">Technology</keyword> campaign group. "At a time when the importance of facts in dealing with a global health crisis are critical, Facebook's decision is arrogant, reckless and dangerous." David Swan, technology editor at The Australia, which has been impacted by the ban, <a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/facebook-bans-news-for-aussies-users/news-story/d83d4ffbaf554ff3f15211a2e092c95c">wrote in an op-ed on Wednesday</a>: "Facebook's offensive is an astonishing abdication of responsibility for a platform that a sizeable percentage of the Australian population who use Facebook, and rely on it for their daily news and information."Australia has offered fertile ground for conspiracy theories, with recent coverage highlighting the growth of domestic variants of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/16/how-australia-became-fertile-ground-for-misinformation-and-qanon?CMP=twt_gu&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium#Echobox=161345398513453985">widespread QAnon conspiracy theory</a>. A May survey from polling firm Essential found that around one in eight Australians <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/australian-poll-finds-1-in-8-blame-bill-gates-and-5g-for-coronavirus/">blame Bill Gates and 5G for the coronavirus pandemic</a>. Australians are increasingly reliant on social media to access news, according to a <a href="https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/nmrc/digital-news-report-australia-2020">2020 study by the University of Canberra</a>, comprising more than 2,000 Australians. The survey found 39% of Australians use Facebook for news, though this is lower than the global average of 42%.It also found 36% Australians are worried by misinformation on Facebook, a higher percentage than for news sites and other platforms.Facebook's move attracted political criticism abroad too.In the US, Democrat congressman David Cicilline hit out at the company on Twitter, writing: "If it is not already clear, Facebook is not compatible with democracy. Threatening to bring an entire country to its knees to agree to Facebook's terms is the ultimate admission of monopoly power." Meanwhile Damian Collins, the former head of the Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee in the UK, who is well known for his public stance against Big Tech platforms, accused Facebook of prioritizing profits "at the expense of democracy." He said: "The spreaders of hate speech and disinformation can do their worst in Australia, it's the real news Mark Zuckerberg is stopping you from sharing. Facebook is protecting profits at the expense of democracy, so we need to stand up for each other in this fight." <h2>Facebook takes the nuclear option</h2>Facebook's decision is in light of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-australia-law-code-news-technology-2021-2">a long-running dispute</a> between Australian officials and the tech giants over Australia's <a href="https://www.accc.gov.au/focus-areas/digital-platforms/news-media-bargaining-code">proposed "news media bargaining code."</a>Politicians are set to debate the new law, which would force Facebook and Google to pay publishers for every news article they display in their search engine results or news feed, respectively.Not everyone is convinced by the current structure of the regulation, or of the Australian media's plight.Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, wrote earlier in February: "If it works, seems like it will mostly benefit big incumbents (e.g News Corp &amp; Nine), and at least initially funding is tied to FB and Google who are well entrenched but subject to anti-trust scrutiny."Danish media analyst Thomas Baekdal <a href="https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/1362315766536757249">accused the Australian media of hypocrisy</a>, writing on Twitter: "If you as a newspaper truly believed that COVID-19 information is important on Facebook, then you would be allowing free sharing as much as possible. But that's not what you are doing. You are instead trying to limit and control sharing, and to get Facebook to pay you for it."Announcing the firm's ban on news links, Facebook managing director for Australia and New Zealand Will Easton <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/changes-to-sharing-and-viewing-news-on-facebook-in-australia/">wrote on Wednesday</a>: "This legislation sets a precedent where the government decides who enters into these news content agreements, and ultimately, how much the party that already receives value from the free service gets paid."We will now prioritize investments to other countries, as part of our plans to invest in new licensing news programs and experiences."Easton wrote that news comprises just 4% of content that users see in their feeds. He also wrote that Facebook referrals to Australian news publishers were worth AU$407 million ($316 million).Facebook has taken the nuclear option by banning news sharing. Google threatened to yank its search engine from Australia, but has subsequently taken a softer approach and is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-news-payments-deal-rupert-murdoch-wall-street-journal-australia-2021-2">racing to offer publishers</a> lucrative deals for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-news-payments-deal-rupert-murdoch-wall-street-journal-australia-2021-2">its Showcase platform</a>, through which users can access paywalled content for free.A Facebook spokesperson told Insider: "Our commitment to combat misinformation on Facebook has not changed. We are directing people to authoritative health information and notify them of new updates via our COVID-19 Information Centre."We're also continuing our third-party fact-checking partnerships with AAP and AFP, who review content and debunk false claims online."

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