Stolen Rain. Tony Mount
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Summary
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.
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.
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