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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.

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.