http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/8840044
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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What is annoying is that we have some record of weather in Europe going back a couple thousand years, but we have absolutely no record of what the weather was like in North America.
It would seem that Native Americans, who according to “Squanto” and “Dances with Wolves” lived in perfect harmony with nature, kept no weather records at all. You would think weather would be important to the lives of Native Americans and that they would want to chronicle important weather events.
There is a tree in Siberia which knows the weather in the US. It is just a matter of getting it to talk.
Fortunately, we have a group of highly skilled climate scientists, who’s careers depend on just that. They have figured out the “code” and have tapped the “teleconnections” between this tree and the weather at any point in the world. Mann are we lucky.
If you have seen one tree, you have seen Yamal!
“but we have absolutely no record of what the weather was like in North America.”
There was an extensive study of sequoia tree rings made in 1910-11.
An interesting article on it can be found here:
A FAR REACHING PROBLEM.
BIG TREES AND CLIMATE
REVEALING HISTORY’S SECRET.
“The Secret of the Big Trees” is the title of an extremely interesting contribution in the current issue of “Harper’s Monthly Magazine,” from the pen of Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, F.R.G.S., of the Department of Geography, at Yale University. The author has directed his attention especially to the big trees of California, the huge species known as Sequoia gigantes. He writes:—”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5327830?
His paper (“The Secret of the Big Trees”) can be found through Google, as well as the other works referenced.
Mike – good one!
In “Avatar” the trees could talk. So it’s not impossible.
Extreme weather events of 535–536
http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/152106