It's Getting Hot in Here

A lot has been said in the last decade about the issue of global warming with some people (idiots) believing it is not even real.  Last month broke a 16-month streak of months where the temperatures have been above average.  In America things are getting the hottest in the region of the Great Plains.  The states of the Great Plains are currently in a drought that shows no signs of getting better any time soon.  Things have become so bad that on October 17 and 18 there was a big dust storm that caused the states of Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming to close major highways.

Planting conditions were highly effected by the Dust Bowl as well as many other things.  The mounds of dust as you see in the picture above where not the only terrible things that came from the Dust Bowl.  Scientists have said that if the drought doesn't get better in another two or three years then we could soon find the Great Plains are in another Dust Bowl.  This time there might not be these big dust storms sweeping across the area but the effects on farming conditions and plants would be hard to overcome.  Farmers have said they believe that they will be able to get through this Dust Bowl if it happens but it would require technological advances to help them.