On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 17:10:00 +0100,
(Jim W) wrote:

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 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?

Dunno I wasn't there, never been to the Sahara nor Europe in the
medeavil times;-Pp

Yes the climate has been changing but the immense tree clearance and
land drainage took place mainly during the last couple of hundred years
(ish) to my knowledge.

The downs and the northern moors were not cleared of trees in modern
times. The moors were cleared during prehistoric times, the downs in
the middle ages
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Martin