On 19 Oct 2003 14:21:14 GMT, emon (Rhiannon S)
wrote:

Subject: Cold Snap for the UK
From: (Jim W)
Date: 18/10/2003 18:44 GMT Daylight Time
Message-id: 1g2zwk4.f8a1buljokrkN%00senetnospamtodayta@macunl imited.net

So much land drainage and loss of soil stored water and trees combined
with changes in weather patterns and we are now seeing the longer term
results

I am not a scientist, but hasn't the climate been changing for centuries
anyway? I'm sure that northern africa

Libya was the main producer of grain in the Roman empire.

used to be hugely fertile swamp and
jungle didn't it? Hasn't desertification been going on in the Sahara region
for the last few thousand years, and didn't europe have a mini ace sometime
around medeavil times?

Do you remember when a new ice age was forecast in the early nineteen
sixties.
--
Martin