Slate: The odds are increasing that an El Nio is in the works for 2014and recent forecasts show it might be a big one. As we learned from Chris Farley, El Nios can boost the odds of extreme weather (droughts, typhoons, heat waves) across much of the planet. But the most important thing about El Nio is that it is predictable, sometimes six months to a year in advance. Thats an incredibly powerful tool, especially if you are one of the billions who live where El Nio tends to hit hardestAsia and the...