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Question : What trees can survive Arizona’s megadrought?

Answer : Trees that can survive very wet soil for long periods of time.

Flagstaff, Arizona — I-40 Webcam (U.S. National Park Service)

On September 15, 1927 the US was experiencing a deadly heatwave, Japan had a deadly typhoon, and dancer Isadora Duncan was killed when her scarf got caught in the wheel of the car she was riding in.

Benton Harbor News Palladium, Sep 15, 1927, p. 1

My beautiful wife Kirye prepared these graphs of typhoon history.

“CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1939.

Greenland’s Glaciers Melting, Scientist Says

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (INS)—
All the glaciers in eastern Greenland are rapidly melting, declared Prof. Hans Ahlmann, Swedish geologist, in a report to the Geographical society here on his recent expedition to the Arctic sub- continent.

“Everything points to the fact that the climate in that region has. been growing warmer during recent years,” the professor said.

“It may without exaggeration be said that the glaciers—like those in Norway—face the possibility of a catastrophic collapse.”

Cedar Rapids Gazette, Dec 11, 1939, p. 25

“THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1941,

Melting Glaciers Threaten Beauty of Parks in Rockies

Ice Rivers Retreating 25 to 100 Feet Yearly, Scientist Reports

By THOMAS R. HENRY,

Glaciers in the United States and the Canadian Rockies are retreating at a rate of from 25 to 100 feet a year, threatening the scenic beauty of Glacier National Park and some of the favorite tourist resorts of Western Canada.

They also are growing thinner, so an accelerated retreat can be expected in the future.

This was the substance of a re- port submitted to the American Geophysical Union here today by Dr. F. E. Matthes, chairman of the Glacier Research Committee.

Few of these glaciers are more than three miles long. This means that within the present generation they may disappear. The same general picture is presented by the European and New Zealand Alps. In the former, the ice rivers are much longer, so they can be expected to persist for centuries.

Warmer Climate Responsible.

Perhaps the fastest retreat is that experienced in Mount Rainier National Park where the rate is between a mile and a mile and a half each year. Most of the Alaskan glaciers are melting rapidly, although a few of the larger ones actually are advancing.

Washington Dc Washington Evening Star, May 2, 1941, p. 19

Without any evidence, academics have been claiming that increasing levels of CO2 are causing the oceans to acidify and dissolve corals.

Ocean Acidification Is Climate Change’s ‘Equally Evil Twin,’ NOAA Chief Says

FIS – Worldnews – Global warming will change acoustical properties of the oceans

Author Sends an Open Letter to Humanity and Its Leaders in Time for Earth Day Celebration

This never made any sense because corals evolved when CO2 levels were fifteen times higher than now.

When life exploded | Science News for Students

Measured data never provided any evidence in support of the scam.

Wayback Machine

The key researcher behind this scam fabricated the data.

Star marine ecologist committed misconduct, university says | Science | AAAS

h/t Kent Clizbe

On the flip side, Peter Ridd was fired for telling the truth about corals.

Peter Ridd awarded $1.2m in unfair dismissal case against James Cook University | Australia news | The Guardian

Great Barrier Reef already on path to destruction, and clever science won’t fix it

“We’ve got more coral on the Great Barrier Reef now than we did when records began in 1985.”

Great Barrier Reef experiencing ‘record high’ levels of coral coverage

Long-Term Monitoring Program – Annual Summary Report of Coral Reef Condition 2020/21 | AIMS

I have been discussing the ocean acidification scam for a long time.  In 2009 a climate modeler told me :

“Global warming may be nonsense, but what we are doing is still good because of ocean acidification”

“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. As one participant put it, “poor methods get results”

Lancet Editor Richard Horton

“Glaciers Melting Fast, Says Norway Scientist.

OSLO—Norway’s glaciers are melting fast. In fact, says glaciologist Olav Liestol of the Norwegian Polar Institute, if the melting continues at the rate of the past 30 years, all Norway’s glaciers will have vanished a hundred years from now,

The tips of most Norwegian glaciers are receding well over 65 feet a year.”

Lebanon Daily News, Jan 19, 1967, p. 7 | NewspaperArchive®

“JUNE 25, 1947.

WORLD.CLIMATE GETTING WARMER,

Scientist Claims Glaciers: Melting Fast

New York (UP)}—The world’s cli- mate is gradually getting warmer, |according to’ Prof, Hans Ahlman, Swedish geographer and glaciologist of the University of Stockholm, who is now on a lecture tour of the United States.

The glaciers of the Arctic, he points out, are melting more rap- idly, which means the water is getting warmer. That, in turn, makes many kinds of fish migrate further north than hitherto—among them sed. The drift ice does not spread over as large a territory as in years ‘past.

Thus the shipping season of coal from the Spitzbergen fields bas in- creased from 95 days at the beginning of the century to 200 days.

This improvement in the climate has also resulted in the growth of forests in areas which earlier were treeless. Barley has now reached as far north as Norway, and craps are in general more abundant in parts where they were poor before. |

The tropics, too, have been subject to change in the last 15 to 20 years, though the increase in heat is less noticeable there. But Prof. Ahlman sounded a warning note about the growing speed at which the glaciers are melting. If it continues unabated, he fears it may mean vast inundations of inhabited coasts and low-lying country in many parts of the world.”

Troy Times Record, Jun 25, 1947, p. 22 | NewspaperArchive®