CO2 is worse than the dust bowl!
Climate change is worrisome, maybe even an emergency. The Dust Bowl was far smaller in scope, but caused vast misery, even as it also inspired some of our nation’s greatest art. Growing up 20 to 30 years afterward, there was a bit of that lingering grit in my family’s conversation. Now, accumulating greenhouse gases may make that grit seem a minor annoyance in comparison.
This is just a small sample from one of the Dust Bowl summers (1936). Hardly a “minor annoyance”, as approximately 5,000 Americans and 1,500 Canadians died from the heat that summer.
Just a small sample from the unprecidented summer of 1936
State Records
North Dakota 121
South Dakota 120
Kansas 121
Arkansas 120
Nebraska 118
Indiana 116
West Virginia 112
New Jersey 110
Manitoba (112) and Ontario (108) also set provincial records
City Records (All time records that still stand)
NYC 106
Toronto 106 (set that record on 3 consecutive days)
Minneapolis 108
Minot, ND 109
Des Moines, IA 110
Saginaw, MI 111
Martinsburg, WV 112
Rockford, IL 112
Pioria, IL 113
Kansas City 113
Lincoln, NB 115 (aslo had an incredible 91 minimum temperature)
Texarkana 117
Salina, KS 118
Chicago (Midway) had 12 straight days of 100+ temps.
Despite the global warming hyseria, we have not had a hot spell remotely close to 1936, with respect to both duration and intensity, during recent years.