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19-10-2003, 06:12 PM

martin wrote:

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
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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

So bar the moors relatively recently in overall terms
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Jim