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The Dust Bowl ‘Then’ – Climate Change ‘Now’ Argument Deconstructed

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I bet most of you have heard from climate skeptics that the Dust Bowl was hot as if this somehow proves that climate change is not happening. My UGA colleague Dr. Marshall Shepherd wrote a good blog post about this earlier this week. This is his response to that argument: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2022/06/20/the-dust-bowl-thenclimate-change-now-argument-deconstructed/?sh=474b276d90c4

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