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CALIFORNIA'S 3-YEAR DROUGHT THREATENS 3K-YEAR-OLD TREES

What a stupid headline. Just more chicken little bull crap from the global warming econuts. The sequoias have survived much longer droughts in the past..

mercurynews.com

...Through studies of tree rings, sediment and other natural evidence, researchers have documented multiple droughts in California that lasted 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years -- compared to the mere three-year duration of the current dry spell. The two most severe megadroughts make the Dust Bowl of the 1930s look tame: a 240-year-long drought that started in 850 and, 50 years after the conclusion of that one, another that stretched at least 180 years...