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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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Ven 2007-09-11