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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by aaa_aaa on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @09:58AM (#32398006)
Yet, there probably were worse draughts within past 200 years. Tree rings and river bed markings can easily prove this. `On Record` is a little deceiving.
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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by Fiahil on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @10:47AM (#32398757)
"Good news", with the number of 200 or 300 years old trees that are currently dying, we will be able to check all records when we'll have them cut down.
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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by aaa_aaa on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @11:18AM (#32399177)
Two things,

- There are many research available that used tree rings to determine past draughts. And yes there were much worse and prolonging ones. Some research goes as far back as a millennia.

- Yo do not need to kill a tree to get ring information. A drill is sufficient.

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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by mjoin on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @11:39AM (#32399417)
Refs to actual peer reviewed many articles please
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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by aaa_aaa on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @12:30PM (#32400160)
Search for `tree ring XXXX`, `historical droughts` etc.

This may be useful too http://drought.memphis.edu/OWDA/

paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1500561

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