https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0810200106#:~:text=La Nina conditions%2C with additional,amplified the drought (1).
I’m reading this study which is positing land surface change (destruction of native grasslands as a result of agriculture) as a contributing factor to the Dust Bowl drought’s severity…
I spoke too soon, it looks like the drought itself wasn’t caused by agriculture. (Is it certain that it wasn’t in some part caused by desiccation of soils from loss of native grasses, though?)
The enormous, billowing clouds of dust were, though…
So it’s still an example of how human activity can affect the weather. Since dust storms are weather.