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This tempering does not mean: no rain or always rain, no sun or
always sun, (wind, frost, ice, etc.) but just taking off the sharp
edges. When e.g. forests are destroyed, as was already known to the
ancient Chinese, (see N. Waln), the amount of water need not be
altered (per year or per five years or so) at all, but now it comes
all in one go, causing floods, washing away the fertile soil, making
landslides, etc. Tempering no more, means also, causing it to come
in the wrong places, or on the wrong times. We therefore observe
places where there never was a flood, suddenly become extraordinary
flooded, places (or seasons) in which there never was more wind than
80 km/h now, all of a sudden experience a 180 km/h wind, etc. When
normally, there is 10 mm of rain every month, the statistics remain
in order when 120 mm come down in one day during the year. The
statisticians satisfied, vegetation dead. In so far, de-forestation
not so much alters the climate, statistically, it nullifies the
tempering effect of life, the only ordering agent. Caused by the
killing of life, it starts killing life in its turn, a snow-ball
effect. It only needs to be triggered off.
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2007-09-11