Reply #88: WHAT'S THAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE HOWLING WINDS OF THE DUST BOWL OF 1935-1940...!!

[DRoseDARs]

Considering half of Kansas was essentially desert...










You should probably read up on your local state history, learn how very fragile your climate there is, and how little it would take to return to the conditions of 70 years ago. Frankly, with global climate change, you're screwed way worse than California is. The North American breadbasket climate (specifically based on wheat-growing conditions) will shift northward, pushing into Canada and leaving the United States almost entirely by 2050 by some estimates. Although expensive currently, Californians have the option of desalinization to combat a drying Southwest. You get dust. Better hope Texas and Oklahoma are willing to pipe desalinized water up from the Gulf of Mexico through their states...



And yes, I'm well-aware I live in Nevada. We do have non-desert regions that rely on whatever rainfall that doesn't fall victim to the rain-shadow effect of the Sierra Nevadas and they will likely suffer as the climate gets hotter. But our economy was never built on farming because this was never good land for that, more suitable for ranching. Mining was always the bigger industry than general agriculture, which mostly produces food for ranch animals rather than food for Humans. Water has always been an issue here, and we're constantly trying to find ways around it, but don't think you're safe there in Kansas. Like I said, you're screwed. Very, very screwed.