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1930-1952

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Year Locale Event Social Effects Source

1952 Central California Major Flood/Coastal Valleys Salinas River Floods
News/ GDS

1952 USA Midwest Drought begins Five year severe/crop failures Trager

1952 USA Poliomyelitis epidemic 50,000 affected/3,300 die/Salk vaccine Trager

1951 Australia 2 year drought begins Livestock die-off Trager

1951 So./central India Very Dry monsoon Strong negative rainfall anomalies/-SOI Kalidas/Sinha

1951 Kansas/Missouri Worst floods in US history 200,000 homeless Nash/Trager

1951 Jamaica Storm from the Antilles grows into Hurricane Charlie, and devastates Jamaica Within six days,154 killed, >2000 injured, and >50,000 homeless Nash

1951-52 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn

1950 Peru Guano/anchoveta fishing debate Guano industry transition/anchoveta boom Trager

1950 West Greenland Cod catches begin rising Fishery recruitment holds for 20 yrs
GDS

1950 China Hwai and Yangtze Rivers flood kills ~500, -10 million homeless Crops fail/Famine Nash

1950 Global Fisheries production Attains pre-war levels Trager

1950-60 North Atlantic Recent warming trend peaks Cod/other species bloom
MOODS/COADS

1949 China Grain crops fail/Famine Population growth > crop production growth Trager

1948 Global Basic nutrition needs All 13 essential vitamines synthesized Trager

1948

Turkmenistan

7.3 richter Scale Earthquake

Up to 100,000 die

National EarthquakeInformation Center - Almanac

1948 Geneva WHO/antibiotics/vaccines Global health issues addressed Trager

1948 USA Energy crisis Oil imports/Venzuela/Mid-East Trager

1947 New York Blizzard Not as bad as 1888 Trager

c 1947 North Atlantic Plankton declining trend Ocean Temperature Rises / abundances decline conversely Colebrook

1947 Britain March 31 Gale destroys crops/poultry Homes/farms blown down/floods/freezes Trager

1947 Britain Coldest Winter since 1880-81 Jan-Feb Snow drifts block transport: fishers in port, livestock devastated Trager

1947 Egypt Cholera outbreak
10,276 die
Nash

1947 Iceland Mt. Hekla erupts Widespread destruction Trager

1946 UK/Europe Blizzards/wet summer Wheat/hay crops fail Trager

1946 Florida Red Tide Bloom/G. breve Worst in history/kills fish/shellfish Trager

1946 China End warm period drier/cooler environment Feng et al.

1945 World War II ends Rebuilding begins UN and other AID agencies emerge Trager

1945 Global Packaged foods more accepted Meat markets/dehydrated foods emerge Trager

1944 Arabia/Red Sea Locust plague
Ý
Trager

1944 Luzon Island, Philippines Typhoon Halsey's fleet was caught, and three destroyers were sunk >790 died Nash

1944 Bahamas, Florida Keys up the US east coast to New England Hurricane 1st spotted in the West Indies, in six days moving along the eastern seaboard, 389 died Nash

1944 Bengal Rice crop fails/Starvation Refuse to accept wheat flour Trager

1943 Global FAO of UN Green Revolution is born Trager

1943 Mexico Paricutin erupts Erupts sporadically for 8 years Trager

1943 Japan Rice crop failure Malnutrition/hunger Trager

1943 India/Kwantung, China Famine / Disease Millions Starve Nash

1943 Burma Rinderpest infestation Livestock die = lowers power source/food production Trager

1943-44 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño February 1943 the Russians managed to take back Kushvhevka,Kupiansk, Tim, Schigry, Kursk, Rostov,Voroshilovgrad, Krasny Sulin, Kharkov, Sumi, and Lebedin. In March, the Russians took Rzhev and Vyazma. The Russians stopped to rest but had calculated their earnings. Over 185,000 miles of Russian soil was now theirs again. Quinn

1942 Bengal Rice crop /fungus 1.6 million die Trager

1942 Florida Orange crops peak Ý Trager

1942 Russia Severest Winter in 30 years General hunger/malnutrition, Nazi's stressed to stay in Russia Trager

1941 Leningrad Russia Sunday, June 22, 1941, Hitler's Nazi forces stormed across the Russian border August 1941 Leningrad was completely surrounded during September and October of 1941. Now the standoff began. November 1, 1941 was the day of the seige - lasting 16 months. Nash

1941 California Sardine Industry fails Overcapitalization/climate change implicated Sharp/McLain

1941 Mexico Wheat crop fails Stem rust/borrows for food imports Trager

1941 China Drought/Famine 3 million Chinese die in Famine NOAA

1941 Central California Major Flood/Coastal Valleys Salinas River Floods Ý

1941 So./central India Very Dry monsoon Strong negative rainfall anomalies/-SOI Kalidas/Sinha

1940 British Isles westerly circulation declines Ocean production decreases Lamb

1940-50 China Cold, dry period Feng et al.

1939-41
Europe

World War II begins

Spreads to Asian Pacific

Dated Timeline

1939 China Yellow River floods Crops fail/Famine kills >200,000 Nash

1939-1941 Pacific wide ENSO warm event Substantial records of climate anomalies Quinn

1938 Oregon Albacore fishery emerges Salmon ladders/Columbia river vs dams Trager

1938 Central/So.California Salinas Valley Floods Los Angeles coast towns innundated

News/GDS

NOAA-SoCal

1938 Eastern USA Surprise Hurricane from African Tropics Mauntauk island/Providence beach/ no phones/shacks
News/GDS

1938 San Bernardino, Huntington Beach California Flood
Hundredsof lives lost, and massive damage done to property
Nash
LA River
Huntington Beach

1938 Eastern Tropical Pacific ENSO cool event Upper ocean low heat content/ US Congress Passes Flood Control Act
GDS

1937 Mississippi & Ohio Rivers flood Greater flow rates than the 1927 flood but less devastation due to channelization and work of Project Flood New era of flood control begins
Pare Lorentz, 1937 documentary film:

"The River"

1937 USA Drought ends Rust attcks wheat crop again Ladurie

1936 Global Freight services encouraged Canning Industry stable/Food Quality Issues Ladurie

1936 China Drought/Famine 5 million Chinese die in what is called the "New Famine" NOAA/Nash

1935 Newfoundland Hurricane Fishing fleets and harbors destroyed, many fishermen killed Nash

1935 Taiwan
R=7.4
3,276 people die. BBC News

1935 USA Stem rust attacks wheat crop Trager

1934 Plains States Dust storms/Top soil loss Results poor agric. practices/War years Trager

1933 Oregon 12 billion bdft timber burn Tillamook burn from tree fall(drought?) Trager

1933 Tennessee/USA Programs TVA flood control CCC build dams/plant trees/erosion problems Trager

1932 Florida Red Tide Bloom/G. breve Kills fish/shellfish Trager

1932 UK/California Atom Split New Energy Source Trager

1932-34 USSR Famine/collectiveness of peasants 5 million die Nash

1932 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Worst Red Tide since 1916 off Florida causes massive fish kills Quinn / Trager #2

1930 Spitzbergen Warm 8-9C warmer 1930-40 vs 1912-26 Ladurie

1930-31 Pacific wide ENSO warm event Substantial records of climate anomalies SOI

1931 Yangze River, China August Typhoon bursts dam 40,000 sq mile flooded, with famine - 3.7 million people perished NOAA/Trager#2

1930 Camp 100 warm Ladurie

1930 Ohio Flood along Ohio River
204,000 sq miles flooded, only 137 lives lost, but Massive Red Cross relief effort saved many more
Nash

1930 Belgian Congo Drought/Famine and Emmigration to Uganda
40,000 die
Nash

1929-31 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Signs of long Drought Begins in Great Plains Quinn

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Exported from 1930-1952.wkz on 24/03/97 at 03:12:53 AM

Year	Locale	Event	Social Effects	Source

1952	Central California	Major Flood/Coastal Valleys	Salinas River Floods	News/ GDS
1952	USA	Midwest Drought begins	Five year severe/crop failures	Trager
1952	USA	Poliomyelitis epidemic	50,000 affected/3,300 die/Salk vaccine	Trager
1951	Australia	2 year drought begins	Livestock die-off	Trager
1951	So./central India	Very Dry monsoon	Strong negative rainfall anomalies/-SOI	Kalidas/Sinha
1951	Kansas/Missouri	Worst floods in US history	200,000 homeless	Nash/Trager
1951	Jamaica	Storm from the Antilles grows into Hurricane Charlie, and devastates Jamaica	Within six days,154 killed, >2000 injured, and >50,000 homeless	Nash
1951-52	ENSO Warm Event	Records/Proxies of El Niño	Ý	Quinn
1950	Peru	Guano/anchoveta fishing debate	Guano industry transition/anchoveta boom	Trager
1950	West Greenland	Cod catches begin rising	Fishery recruitment holds for 20 yrs	GDS
1950	China	Hwai and Yangtze Rivers flood	kills ~500, -10 million homeless Crops fail/Famine	Nash
1950	Global	Fisheries production	Attains pre-war levels	Trager
1950-60	North Atlantic	Recent warming trend peaks	Cod/other species bloom	MOODS/COADS
1949	China	Grain crops fail/Famine	Population growth > crop production growth	Trager
1948	Global	Basic nutrition needs	All 13 essential vitamines synthesized	Trager
1948	Turkmenistan	7.3 richter Scale Earthquake	Up to 100,000 die	National EarthquakeInformation Center - Almanac
1948	Geneva	WHO/antibiotics/vaccines	Global health issues addressed	Trager
1948	USA	Energy crisis	Oil imports/Venzuela/Mid-East	Trager
1947	New York	Blizzard	Not as bad as 1888	Trager
c 1947	North Atlantic	Plankton declining trend	Ocean Temperature Rises / abundances decline conversely	Colebrook
1947	Britain	March 31 Gale destroys crops/poultry	Homes/farms blown down/floods/freezes	Trager
1947	Britain	Coldest Winter since 1880-81	Jan-Feb Snow drifts block transport: fishers in port, livestock devastated	Trager
1947	Egypt	Cholera outbreak	10,276 die	Nash
1947	Iceland	Mt. Hekla erupts	Widespread destruction	Trager
1946	UK/Europe	Blizzards/wet summer	Wheat/hay crops fail	Trager
1946	Florida	Red Tide Bloom/G. breve	Worst in history/kills fish/shellfish	Trager
1946	China	End warm period	drier/cooler environment	Feng et al.
1945	World War II ends	Rebuilding begins	UN and other AID agencies emerge	Trager
1945	Global	Packaged foods more accepted	Meat markets/dehydrated foods emerge	Trager
1944	Arabia/Red Sea	Locust plague	Ý	Trager
1944	Luzon Island, Philippines	Typhoon	Halsey's fleet was caught, and three destroyers were sunk >790 died	Nash
1944	Bahamas, Florida Keys up the US east coast to New England	Hurricane	1st spotted in the West Indies, in six days moving along the eastern seaboard, 389 died	Nash
1944	Bengal	Rice crop fails/Starvation	Refuse to accept wheat flour	Trager
1943	Global	FAO of UN	Green Revolution is born	Trager
1943	Mexico	Paricutin erupts	Erupts sporadically for 8 years	Trager
1943	Japan	Rice crop failure	Malnutrition/hunger	Trager
1943	India/Kwantung, China	Famine / Disease	Millions Starve	Nash
1943	Burma	Rinderpest infestation	Livestock die = lowers power source/food production	Trager
1943-44	ENSO Warm Event	Records/Proxies of El Niño	February 1943 the Russians managed to take back Kushvhevka,Kupiansk, Tim, Schigry, Kursk, Rostov,Voroshilovgrad, Krasny Sulin, Kharkov, Sumi, and Lebedin. In March, the Russians took Rzhev and Vyazma. The Russians stopped to rest but had calculated their earnings. Over 185,000 miles of Russian soil was now theirs again.	Quinn
1942	Bengal	Rice crop /fungus	1.6 million die	Trager
1942	Florida	Orange crops peak	Ý	Trager
1942	Russia	Severest Winter in 30 years	General hunger/malnutrition, Nazi's stressed to stay in Russia	Trager
1941	Leningrad Russia	Sunday, June 22, 1941, Hitler's Nazi forces stormed across the Russian border	August 1941 Leningrad was completely surrounded during September and October of 1941. Now the standoff began. November 1, 1941 was the day of the seige - lasting 16 months.	Nash
1941	California	Sardine Industry fails	Overcapitalization/climate change implicated	Sharp/McLain
1941	Mexico	Wheat crop fails	Stem rust/borrows for food imports	Trager
1941	China	Drought/Famine	3 million Chinese die in Famine	NOAA
1941	Central California	Major Flood/Coastal Valleys	Salinas River Floods	Ý
1941	So./central India	Very Dry monsoon	Strong negative rainfall anomalies/-SOI	Kalidas/Sinha
1940	British Isles	westerly circulation declines	Ocean production decreases	Lamb
1940-50	China	Cold, dry period		Feng et al.
1939-41	Europe	World War II begins	Spreads to Asian Pacific	Dated Timeline
1939	China	Yellow River floods	Crops fail/Famine kills >200,000	Nash
1939-1941	Pacific wide	ENSO warm event	Substantial records of climate anomalies	Quinn
1938	Oregon	Albacore fishery emerges	Salmon ladders/Columbia river vs dams	Trager
1938	Central/So.California	Salinas Valley Floods	Los Angeles coast towns innundated	News/GDS NOAA-SoCal
1938	Eastern USA	Surprise Hurricane from African Tropics	Mauntauk island/Providence beach/ no phones/shacks	News/GDS
1938	San Bernardino, Huntington Beach California	Flood	Hundredsof lives lost, and massive damage done to property	Nash LA River Huntington Beach
1938	Eastern Tropical Pacific	ENSO cool event	Upper ocean low heat content/ US Congress Passes Flood Control Act	GDS
1937	Mississippi & Ohio Rivers flood	Greater flow rates than the 1927 flood but less devastation due to channelization and work of Project Flood	New era of flood control begins	Pare Lorentz, 1937 documentary film: "The River"
1937	USA	Drought ends	Rust attcks wheat crop again	Ladurie
1936	Global	Freight services encouraged	Canning Industry stable/Food Quality Issues	Ladurie
1936	China	Drought/Famine	5 million Chinese die in what is called the "New Famine"	NOAA/Nash
1935	Newfoundland	Hurricane	Fishing fleets and harbors destroyed, many fishermen killed	Nash
1935	Taiwan	R=7.4	3,276 people die.	BBC News
1935	USA	Stem rust attacks wheat crop		Trager
1934	Plains States	Dust storms/Top soil loss	Results poor agric. practices/War years	Trager
1933	Oregon	12 billion bdft timber burn	Tillamook burn from tree fall(drought?)	Trager
1933	Tennessee/USA Programs	TVA flood control	CCC build dams/plant trees/erosion problems	Trager
1932	Florida	Red Tide Bloom/G. breve	Kills fish/shellfish	Trager
1932	UK/California	Atom Split	New Energy Source	Trager
1932-34	USSR	Famine/collectiveness of peasants	5 million die	Nash
1932	ENSO Warm Event	Records/Proxies of El Niño	Worst Red Tide since 1916 off Florida causes massive fish kills	Quinn / Trager #2
1930	Spitzbergen	Warm	8-9C warmer 1930-40 vs 1912-26	Ladurie
1930-31	Pacific wide	ENSO warm event	Substantial records of climate anomalies	SOI
1931	Yangze River, China	August Typhoon bursts dam	40,000 sq mile flooded, with famine - 3.7 million people perished	NOAA/Trager#2
1930	Camp 100	warm		Ladurie
1930	Ohio	Flood along Ohio River	204,000 sq miles flooded, only 137 lives lost, but Massive Red Cross relief effort saved many more	Nash
1930	Belgian Congo	Drought/Famine and Emmigration to Uganda	40,000 die	Nash
1929-31	ENSO Warm Event	Records/Proxies of El Niño	Signs of long Drought Begins in Great Plains	Quinn