A return of the dust bowl?

The Worst Hard Time : The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

This recently published book also clearly shows how the politics of the time created the dust bowl. Before the government got into the act, the area was covered with grasslands that could have ameliorated the effects of the drought.

Counting down the number of seconds before someone in the MSM links this to Global warming.

Adding to Bernard W Joseph's comment above, this quote from "Americans and their Weather" by William B. Meyer: "Most migrants to California were victims less of the direct effects of bad weather than of measures taken for protection against good weather." (p. 162)

Meyer also quotes an Agriculture Department study made during the Carter administration. It concluded that a return of Dust Bowl conditions to the Missouri Valley would increase water available to crops -- because it would force the government to give up its misguided attempt to manage the river for barge traffic, freeing water for irrigation.