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Two centuries of World deforestation have warmed cleared coastal soils that stole the rain, once borrowed by their trees, to further wet their land and raise their run-off. Roads and roofs and runways have sealed more land and drained more stolen rain into our rising seas. Rain stolen from our lowest inland falls so even less is left to feed our inland rivers as they dry.

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Publié par	Tablo Pty Ltd
Date de parution	20 février 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781925880540
Langue	English

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Two centuries of World deforestation have warmed the coastal lands they cleared and let their soils steal the rain once borrowed by their trees, to add more to soil's moisture store and increase its run-off. Sealed roads and roofs and runways now drain more stolen rain into our rising seas. Rain stolen from our lower falls inland, so less runs off to feed our inland rivers as they dry.

Tony Mount has a sixty year interest in forest fire ecology and is author of Tasmania's Soil Dryness Index
Introduction
Current global warming and rising sea levels are mostly blamed on carbon emissions from our burning of fossil fuels. But another, more certain man-caused climate change - two centuries of worldwide deforestation - seldom gets a mention.
Fortunately, Tasmania's Soil Dryness Index has long measured interception - one of clearing forest's major climate-changers.