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Floods and Droughts in Living Memory
Climate matters. It mattered to the Vikings, who settled Iceland,
explored the New World, and were lured north to Greenland
during a period of unusually warm weather a millennium ago.
Climate mattered to Oklahoma farmers during the Dust Bowl
years of the 1930s, when many people headed west as much of
their soils headed east on the withering winds. Today, with
l oods and drought, feast and famine, climate matters to many
of us much of the time.
