@jon_agar This is interesting. I've been wondering for a while about parallels between the failure of Khrushchev's virgin lands schemes & the US Dust Bowl disaster two decades earlier- now seen as the product of mechanisation combined with prolonged ex
Nice new historical study of the 1930s North American Dust Bowl drought: http://t.co/h2GBC1Jn
RT @thirstygecko: A historical perspective on the Dust Bowl drought using early meteorological data http://t.co/4TqJdHz4
via @thirstygecko interesting look at Dust Bowl, mid-19th century drought correcting for precip record shortcomings: http://t.co/CxYLCkZf