Or even that it is a harbinger of a new Dust Bowl, as in the 1930?
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New stories and a novel about a whacked-out imaginary town during the Dust Bowl drought.
Memories of the 1930s Dust Bowl have even been revived, although agricultural practices have improved greatly since then.
The second worry is that even if it is just variation, might it still lead to Dust Bowl conditions?
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Now 90, Mr Rogers came to California in 1940 from Oklahoma in the great migration from the Great Plains' dust bowl.
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The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
These problems, notably a dust bowl that dwarfs that of the Depression-era U.S., are adding millions of new refugees every year.
That being said, differences in land use and farming practices since the Dust Bowl make the comparison of real-world impacts more complicated.
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But drought has gripped the Sun Belt in recent years, and federal scientists predict recurrent periods similar to the 1930s Dust Bowl if climate change models prove accurate.
When there was despair in the Dust Bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose.
The thing is, last time around, when we did get the Dust Bowl, we were really only just beginning to understand about the effects of ploughing with tractors on the stability of that topsoil.
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Of course, the U.S. has experienced many severe droughts during the past century, including the Dust Bowl that produced major ecological and agricultural damage throughout American and Canadian prairies from 1930-36 (and in some areas, until 1940).
Might not sound important, until you realize that our farm production is critically dependent upon stable weather patterns, this year promises to be one of the worst for drought in many areas since the dust bowl days from the Depression.
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His mother worked as a retail clerk and a waitress, and his father, who had ridden the rails during the Dust Bowl days, was a saw filer in a lumber mill, a storyteller, a depressive, and a blackout drunk, who died at fifty-three.
They have also resulted in severe environmental consequences globally due to nutrient mismanagement, including the great U.S. Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and, more recently, massive plumes of nutrient runoff in areas like the Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, which are creating huge marine dead zones.
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Crop yields in recent dry years were less affected by drought than crops of the dust-bowl droughts of the 1930s, when there was less carbon dioxide.
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