Quote Originally Posted by venture79 View Post
I personal don't believe we have enough historical data to concretely say we have had an impact. However, we can look at the growth of the human population and really any CO2 producer and the decline in CO2 consuming organisms and eventually there is going to be a trade off. CO2 is a green house gas and the more of it around, the warmer things will get. So the less plant life around to eat up the CO2 the worse off things will get.

I have my faith in nature though that it will do what it always does...balance things back out. Might not be good for us, but we aren't the only living organism on this grain of sand.
Well, that's my point. That, maybe, it's a 70 or 80 year cycle that dust storms will come and go in this region of the country while the jet stream goes through its migratory pattern, if you will. It's the meteorological portion of the ecological system.

So, I'd assume that before the 1930s Dust Bowl, there was another drought of the magnitudes 70 or 80 years beforehand that affected our very region. How many people were in this region to record those? Are there records of that happening here during that time frame? I mean, there were settlers making their way out west at that time, but this area was Indian Territory then. The AT&SF may have been surveyed in the 1870s if I recall correctly so other than that, are there records of weather events?