a statistically significant link between ENSO and sea salt deposition during summer from the Law Dome (LD) ice core in East Antarctica. ENSO-related atmospheric anomalies from the central-western Equatorial Pacific (CWEP) propagate to the South Pacific and the circumpolar high latitudes. These anomalies modulate high latitude zonal winds, with El Nio (La Nia) conditions causing reduced (enhanced) zonal wind speeds and subsequently, reduced (enhanced) summer sea salt deposition at LD.' I think perhaps the 'high latitude zonal winds' modulate ENSO by pushing cold water along the Peruvian Current. If you look carefully -- the drying of the Sahel some 5000 years ago can be see along with the demise of the Minoan civilisation some 3,500 years ago and many periods of long droughts and massive flooding. There are some people that would look at the busy chart and think the "linear sensitivity" is has more to do with climate scientists than climate science. Oh! Did you know that the average flow through the Drake Passage is about 600 time the flow of the amazon? A mire pittance in the grand scheme of things I am sure, but for some reason, as the gap between continents has widened, the average temperature of the oceans has decreased. Dangest thing. Some may resent the military despair of the original use of the term "die hard": &gt; Ordinarily in a duel between Allied line and French column, the greater volume of fire laid down by the line (where every single weapon could be brought