[all2]

The dust-bowl wasn't specifically weather, it was farming practices (and apparently a drought).

> The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes (wind erosion) caused the phenomenon.

from Wikipedia

[drewcoo]

And the draining of aquifers more so than climate change, makes the dust bowl more and more likely to happen again.

https://theconversation.com/farmers-are-depleting-the-ogalla...

[goodgoblin]

thank you - I thought someone might make a comment like this, which is why I added the qualifier ("weather which led to the dust-bowl") to distinguish it from the human factors - but hey - it's cool - and I love that you used the word "aeolian" - thats a really cool word :)

my point was just that weird weather has been happening for a long time, and if you think about it, if the weather people can't predict whether it will rain or not 2 weeks from now, how can they possibly predict there will be more or less storms 5 years from now, 10 years, etc?