{"id":5213,"date":"2015-11-19T00:53:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T05:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2015-11-19T00:55:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T05:55:00","slug":"video-will-there-be-another-dust-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/11\/video-will-there-be-another-dust-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8220;Will there be another Dust Bowl?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jeff Lee, a professor of geosciences from Texas Tech, is featured in this videotaped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EsG7AgKviV0&amp;feature=share\" target=\"_blank\">lecture<\/a> about causes of the Dust Bowl and whether a similar pattern could occur again.\u00a0 The video is about 30 minutes long and is best at discussing the causes of the Dust Bowl.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the highest quality, but you might be interested in the historical perspective.\u00a0 Could the Dust Bowl happen in the Southeast?\u00a0 It is unlikely due to improvements in farming practices and the greater availability of water for irrigation compared to the region most affected by the 1930s droughts.\u00a0 The increased use of cover crops and smart irrigation techniques also makes it less likely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/DustStormInSpearmanTexas19350414-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2699\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/DustStormInSpearmanTexas19350414-1-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"DustStormInSpearmanTexas19350414 (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/DustStormInSpearmanTexas19350414-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/DustStormInSpearmanTexas19350414-1-210x138.jpg 210w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/DustStormInSpearmanTexas19350414-1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jeff Lee, a professor of geosciences from Texas Tech, is featured in this videotaped lecture about causes of the Dust Bowl and whether a similar pattern could occur again.\u00a0 The video is about 30 minutes long and is best at discussing the causes of the Dust Bowl.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the highest quality, but you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drought","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}