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Old March 19th 07, 10:06 AM posted to uk.transport.london
David Cantrell David Cantrell is offline
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Default How's this for being hypocritical?

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:05:05AM -0700, Boltar wrote:
On Mar 16, 1:18 pm, "Fod" wrote:
given the range of projections that might not happen; you might see
the warmer weather of 1-2 degrees increasing food yields.

If that were the case then shouldn't the med and northern africa be
the bread basket of europe?


Before it got all buggered up by over-grazing etc, southern Europe and
northern Africa was indeed the breadbasket of Europe. To control the
Egyptian grain supply was to control Rome - which is how Vespasian
became emperor.

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