America Beyond 2001 | Greenhouse America: A Twenty-First- Century “Wild Card”

Nowhere is the greenhouse effect in the United States likely to be felt earlier or more severely than on the Great Plains and in the Midwest—America’s breadbasket. It was here that the legendary Dust Bowl of the 1930s caused wheat and corn yields to plummet by up to 50 percent. It was here where, despite modern technology, the heat and drought of 1988 triggered a 40 percent reduction in midwestern corn yields. And it is here where the first major battle of our new greenhouse world will likely be joined: the Great Drought of the 1990s.

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