The Dust Bowl heat was bad. But this summer's record temps were even grimmer.
www.mashable.com Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate. The Dust Bowl heat was terrible. A potent nexus of events — extremely dry, hot weather exacerbated by poor farming practices that turned regions into scorching, dust-ridden wastelands — conspired to drive record high summer temperatures in the…