RE: #153 – A xerophile slow growing strange tree, in an extreme, 14K foot alpine desert, at the Eastern edge of a semi permanent oceanic High Pressure system, but with maritime air blocked by a 14K foot mountain range, subject in the winter to outbreaks of Yukon air and in the summers of some years, quite a bit of cT air from Mexico, but not in all years, with radically variable moisture availability and temperature on a day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year and even possibly decade scale as a normal part of the characteristics of its climate zone on a substrate of intrusive igneous rock with minimal soil, as a sweet spot representative of “global average temperature” Ah, yeah, right ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Should NASA climate accountants adhere to GAAP? « Climate Audit] Reference