The Dust Bowl: then, now, + the future

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/17/706311/the-shape-of-drough ts-to-come-2012-versus-the-1930s-dust-bowl/?mobile=nc

The WashPost reported this week:
The United States will suffer a series of severe droughts in the next two decades, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Moreover, global warming will play an increasingly important role in their abundance and severity, claims Aiguo Dai, the study’s author.
His findings bolster conclusions from climate models used by researchers around the globe that have predicted severe and widespread droughts in coming decades over many land areas…
“We can now be more confident that the models are correct,” Dai said, “but unfortunately, their predictions are dire.