Philip Eden wrote:Philip Eden wrote:
The following comparison, using published E&W rainfall data and
means for 1971-2000 might be illuminating:

1995-98 2004-06

FWIW, the deficit wasn't actually fully offset until Feb 2001 ...
towards the end of that floody winter.

Now move the goalposts.

You mean they had three more resevoirs for the first dates and some of
the last. But not for any future? And no doubt less trees and hedges
than ever to minimise water restoration into the soil and more land
drains to accelerate its disposal?

And even more tree damage due to the stress they are under in certain
parts.

And that's not counting an as yet unknown effect on the fungii that the
green revolution started to kill from the 1960's.

(An effect brought to light with the study of rain forest farming
methods in more civilised cultures: "So one of the hypothesis is that
the Amerindian populations actually used some sort of slash and char
technique as a soil fertility enhancer."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon...adotrans.shtml)