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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Tony Mount. Stolen Rain
Summary
Introduction
Stolen Rain. BORROWED RAIN
DRYING SOIL
STANDING FOREST CAPTURES CO2
SOIL CLEARED STEALS BORROWED RAIN
LAND FOR FOOD AND FOREST PRODUCTION
PERMANENT FOREST CLEARING CHANGES CLIMATES
WHAT CAN WE DO?
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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.
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Fortunately, Tasmania's Soil Dryness Index has long measured interception - one of clearing forest's major climate-changers.
Fifty years ago Forestry Tasmania combined four years of rainfall and river flow from Tasmania's Emu River, with two years of detailed research from Lidsdale, NSW, to create the Soil Dryness Index that still forecasts floods and fire weather today.
