https://northlandclimatechange.org/2018/09/06/methane-carbon-and-planetary-cooling/ https://academic.oup.com/mmy/article/57/Supplement_1/S3/5300148. You probably can’t find it now. Here is a bunch of aerial photos of removed-mountaintop minesites after the mountaintop removal mining has happened. I remember reading that the Flint Hills region of Kansas was too full of big up-sticking rocks to ever be plowable. heat waves like those in the 1930s far more likely, Lava lake rises at dangerous African volcano, Precarious rocks help refine earthquake hazard in California, As wildfires continue in western United States, biologists fear for vulnerable species, ‘There’s only one chance to do this right’—FDA panel wrestles with COVID-19 vaccine issues, U.S. cities struggling to meet lofty climate goals, Troubles escalate at Ecuador’s dream research university, Strict biodiversity laws prevent Indian scientists from sharing new microbes with the world, U.S. climate report moves ahead after complaints about delays, Ultrawhite paint could cool buildings and combat climate change, You may have a new organ lurking in the middle of your head, Pig fat can be used to grow jawbones for humans, This tiny device harvests energy from a simple breeze, Images of a black hole reveal how cosmic beasts change over time, Troubles escalate at Ecuador's young research university, In new strategy, Wellcome Trust takes on global health concerns, American Association for the Advancement of Science. > Historically, the Dust Bowl, which once got so bad it engulfed NYC, was caused by the immigration of incompetent farmers who played out their land in the East. These findings demonstrate that an extreme production decline would lead to substantial supply shortfalls in both the United States and in other countries, where impacts outside the United States strongly depend on a country’s reserves and on its relative position in the global trade network. I couldn’t find anything specific to Dust Bowl states, but here are a couple of links that perhaps someone with the requisite background can use as a launch pad to address Lambert’s question: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2017.02051/full He himself would be too busy to take any active part. On Pasture explains the sensors used in the GRL study, and zeroes in on the rising dust in “Is a Second Dust Bowl on Its Way?”. This weather pattern is also conducive to producing tornadoes. “We really are at the point where droughts could again be as bad as in the 1930s,” says Kasey Bolles, an expert on the Dust Bowl at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and a co-author on the Science study. The trend of rising dust parallels expansion of cropland and seasonal crop cycles, suggesting that farming practices are exposing more soil to wind erosion.

One policy change that would enable a lot of positive change is the USDA preference of big ag/big farms over small, the ‘get big or get out’ commodity push of the late 70s changed to a preference for smaller farms with less reliance on single-crop commodities. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. Dust Impacts of Rapid Agricultural Expansion on the Great Plains, Dust Bowl 2.0?

Obviously, we can’t run a parallel simulation to see what would have happened to the landscape absent the rise of agriculture for last few thousand years, but nonetheless, erosion makes massive, permanent changes to the landscape. Renewed agricultural expansion is adding to the problem. I’m too busy building it myself. This is not a small signal to find.”. Flynn NM, Hoeprich PD, Kawachi MM et al.

It would only take readers one or three minutes and it would work.

From plantation agriculture in the 1840s (not a typo) through agribusiness, Big Agri has always fought against soil preservation. Do I dare admit that Six War Years is available for $2.99 on Amazon?

Experts have blamed the original Dust Bowl events on a combination of climate and agricultural drivers. That is to say, when you no longer see the advantages of a shelter belt protecting your field, you tend to forget its importance. clicking on the “Lambert Strether” click-name and going through all the thereby-called-up posts to find the soil centric ones. There are many American farmer and scientist videos. Pencil in “another Dust Bowl in the Great Plains.” A study from University of Utah researchers and their colleagues finds that atmospheric dust levels are rising across the Great Plains at a rate of up to 5% per year.

It’s not really ‘small farmers’ any longer, it’s ‘agricultural enterprises’ taking seed inputs and running them through an industrialized process to generate a product with fixed characteristics.

Bolles has another concern. The dust storms not only threaten to remove soil nutrients and decrease agricultural productivity, but also present a health hazard, says Andy Lambert, a co-author on the study and a meteorologist at the U.S. Predictably, there are labs trying to figure out how to market the biochar component for max profit, but there also seems to be broader interest for sustainable agriculture, with considerations for climate change. There is no difference, he is absolutely creating soil. “But the damage was already done to the soil,” Lambert says. This is one of the reasons that yellow field peas work in the Dakotas but not down here, darn it. I cannot, however, agree with what pileusII seems to have understood from that lecture(s). Here, I could share with you a lot of those aforementioned tales I’ve encountered through the years about the Dirty Thirties — and there are plenty of them. So we accept methods and practices which do the least amount of damage (yet still too much) and muddle along ignoring the penultimate factor in the problem set. This airborne dust is negatively influencing human health and visibility and coincides with increases in agricultural production. Ask a Dairy Grazier, View all articles by Guest Contributor », Your email address will not be published. Since the water evaporates, it’s essentially mined- dispersed and gone forever- from that area even if that evaporated water forms rain or dew somewhere down wind. For a quick take on the book see this review. The dust bowl is the primary reason why we have crop price supports and a soil conservation corp. LOL. Wheat booms led to wheat busts, for example, and the cost of making larger crops to cover debt soon outpaced the prices that one got for the extra crops. Thats the big picture stuff; very important. His Youtube is in this site There is also the more global question of desertification, described by National Geographic in “Desertification, explained“: While land degradation has occurred throughout history, the pace has accelerated, reaching 30 to 35 times the historical rate, according to the United Nations. Think of them as like a sponge holding water, not like a lake. You can with ammonium nitrate. As the winds blew, they created gigantic dust clouds, which spewed dirt mounds onto everything, including livestock and homes. On May 9 1934, one storm was 1,500 miles long, 900 miles across, and 2 miles high. That of course makes his soil healthier and more able to provide the nutrients necessary for plant growth (and animal grazing) and provides all the other services he describes in the video. A site?

From the U.S. Drought Monitor animations page: With these warnings echoing in our minds, let’s turn to the implications of a second Dust Bowl: A second Dust Bowl would be very bad. Expansion of programs like CSP (Conservation Security or Stewardship Program) and EQIP (Environmental Quality Incentive Program) and the CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) will drive change. Google aerial photos of huge strip mines in WV, then zoom out & watch them disappear into an ocean of green. redleg, the sea has not risen “several meters” between 1900 and 2008! Your email address will not be published.

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. And not all topsoil blowing away ends up in the ocean. Notifications from this discussion will be disabled. “Some areas have still not fully recovered.”. soil is the unconscious of Mother Earth, always wanting to stay hidden, covered, unexposed-yet the engine of life. > Events like Gabe Brown and all the newly developed/developing science which informs his work and the work of others. Keep it Clean.