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Pediatricians well-prepared to treat latest wayward patient

Ladies and gentlemen of the American Academy of Pediatrics, let me introduce a new joint patient, much in need of our care. Always a group concerned about the underpuppy, the scapekid, AAP members are just the group to minister to this particular child, known by his Spanish appellation, El Niño.

Scientists say that El Niño (the child) was spawned by warmer-than-usual water moving off the coast of Australia, setting up high-level convection currents and thunderstorms over the equatorial Pacific, which in turn leads to all those effects blamed upon the poor child: floods and landslides in California, droughts in Indonesia, lack of a white Christmas in Minnesota. Now I ask you, my fellow pediatricians, doesn't that seem a little far-fetched (No pun intended.)?

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