Carl Hodges, a longtime Arizona innovator and prominent atmospheric scientist who was one of the first to recognize and address climate change using seawater, died Saturday morning at 84 years old after being diagnosed with Alzheimer s disease.
Over his life-long career, Hodges was known for developing and pioneering systems to combat climate change, sea-level rises and poverty around the world by using seawater to develop agriculture and jobs.
Beth Hodges, Carl s wife of about 35 years, said he started suffering memory loss about a year ago. A few months ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer s and died on Saturday, shortly after his birthday, she said.
Out of the past
January 29, 1896
Information has come to light on a great scheme to parallel the C.H & D. railroad between Lima and Cincinnati with an electric line. The proposal has gone beyond the talking stage. Leading New Your capitalists are said to be behind the project and the instructions given out are to push the line with all speed.
The commissioners of Shelby county and Champaign county were today examining the proposed Mosquito Creek ditch in Champaign county. The examination was with a view to determining the damages Champaign county should pay Shelby county. They could not agree. The Champaign county commissioners refuse to pay any damages for the increased flow of water the Mosquito ditching proposed will make in that creek in this county.