According to U.S temperature records most of warmest years have occurred between 1920 and 1940 and when the four large sunbelt states are taken into account, practically all of the State temperature records have occurred before the year 2000. The 1935 drought in the United States was part of a series of severe droughts that occurred in the 1930’s, which is considered the drought record for the country. The drought, combined with the Great Depression and the misuse of land, led to the Dust Bowl, a period of devastating dust storms.

The term “Dust Bowl” was first used by an AP reporter in 1935 to describe the drought-stricken region as the US hottest year which included parts of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. The Dust Bowl intensified the economic impacts of the Great Depression, and drove many of it’s farming families to migrate in search of work and better conditions. Carbon Dioxide emissions in the two decades of the 1920’s and 1930’s were very low at at only 8 ppm in total and could not have have had any effect on the weather.