{"id":7053,"date":"2016-05-14T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7053"},"modified":"2016-05-14T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T16:01:42","slug":"may-1934-dust-bowl-storms-blew-dirt-from-oklahoma-all-the-way-to-nyc-and-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/may-1934-dust-bowl-storms-blew-dirt-from-oklahoma-all-the-way-to-nyc-and-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"May 1934 Dust Bowl storms blew dirt from Oklahoma all the way to NYC and DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

In preparation for an interview next week, I am reading “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl<\/em>.” \u00a0It’s a great book, and I am enjoying it. \u00a0I was struck this morning by a description of the dust storms of mid-May, 1934 (82 years ago this week), which blew fine dust all the way from the panhandle of Oklahoma to New York City and Washington DC. \u00a0The amount of dust was so large that it caused streetlights in Manhattan (New York, \u00a0not Kansas) to come on in the middle of the day, and views from the Empire State Building looked like soup so thick that observers could barely see the ground because of the dust in the air. \u00a0If you’ve ever been there, it must have been an amazing sight. \u00a0If you think that human activity cannot affect climate, then you need to read this story. \u00a0You can read reviews about it at Amazon and other places here<\/a>. \u00a0It’s clear that the Dust Bowl was not just the result of exceptional drought in the area (there was clearly a very bad drought at the time, although\u00a0arguably not the worst ever there), but the result of humans plowing up the natural landscape in favor of what turned out to be short-term monetary gains that ultimately blew up in (or maybe in this case away from) their faces.<\/p>\n

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In preparation for an interview next week, I am reading “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl.” \u00a0It’s a great book, and I am enjoying it. \u00a0I was struck this morning by a description of the dust storms of mid-May, 1934 (82 years ago this week), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053","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=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7056,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions\/7056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}