News California fires, rising seas: Millions of climate refugees will dwarf Dust Bowl by 2100 November 4, 2019 Yvette D. Clarke and Michael Shank, Opinion contributors Comments Off on California fires, rising seas: Millions of climate refugees will dwarf Dust Bowl by 2100 An environmental crisis in the early 1900s created 'Dust Bowl refugees.' Today's climate crisis is much bigger and will last for decades, not years.