Top NASA climate scientist James Hansen said in the past few years there has been a temporary "apparent standstill in global temperatures" that is heavily due to more frequent cooling La Ninas.

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For much of the 20th century, Mr Hirschfeld's drawings were there to be savoured in the Sunday edition of the New York Times, where one's appreciation of his gift for spearing a performer's physiognomy co-existed with a weekly hunt for the Ninas that is to say, the number of times Mr Hirschfeld had the name Nina embedded in almost every drawing, as a tribute to his only child.

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