Comment by Wildgoose
3 years ago
Deforestation is historic, your comment implies it is recent.
We know from comprehensive aerial photographs of the UK taken by Germany in the 1930s/40s that the UK has much more forest coverage now than it had then.
The UK switched to coal beginning in the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth because of the lack of forests providing a source of wood. The current reforestation projects have nothing to do with "an issue with winds getting too strong because of deforestation". There isn't any recent deforestation - just the opposite in fact.
I didn't say it was recent. I said that UK has unfavourable wind patterns because there aren't enough trees.