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Shakespeare Was Still Alive The Last Time America Faced A Drought This Bad
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California’s mega-drought is even worse than we thought. A new scientific study found that the Golden State has not been this dry in 500 years — since the 16th century. The last time drought conditions were this bad in California, Cortes was conquering the Aztecs, Shakespeare was writing prose and Luther was sparking the Reformation.
“The results were astonishing,” Valerie Trouet, one of the study’s authors, told The Washington Post. “We knew it was an all-time low over a historical period, but to see this as a low for the last 500 years, we didn’t expect that. There’s very little doubt about it.”
An associate professor at the University of Arizona, Trouet and her team analyzed blue oak rings from California’s Central Valley and wrote up the results in a paper for the scientific journal Nature. The size of rings in the blue oaks can show the amount of rain that fell in a year. The rings were narrower than they’ve been in half a millennium.
“We looked at the past 500 years,” Trouet said. “This is the most extreme.”
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Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/current-events/shakespeare-was-still-alive-the-last-time-america-faced-a-drought-this-bad/
