Scientists Surprised to Find Earth's Biosphere Booming

radioweather writes "An article from the Financial Post says that recent studies of biosphere imaging from the NASA SEAWIFS satellite indicate that the Earth's biomass is booming: 'The results surprised Steven Running of the University of Montana and Ramakrishna Nemani of NASA, scientists involved in analyzing the NASA satellite data. They found that over a period of almost two decades, the Earth as a whole became more bountiful by a whopping 6.2%. About 25% of the Earth's vegetated landmass — almost 110 million square kilometers — enjoyed significant increases and only 7% showed significant declines. When the satellite data zooms in, it finds that each square meter of land, on average, now produces almost 500 grams of greenery per year.' Their 2004 study, and other more recent ones, point to the warming of the planet and the presence of CO2, fertilizing the biota and resulting in the increased green side effect."

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Re:So now we have the

[Plutonite]

I haven't seen "the jews" being blamed for anything on slashdot. Maybe you're a little too sensitive, especially as the GP was probably referring to the recent direct threats to sovereign nations that Israeli leadership was making in the last few days. Threats of military action.

Re:So now we have the

[c6gunner]

Every coal-fired power plant in India, China, and the USA could be replaced with nuclear for the cost of the Iraq war.

Yes, yes, we know. We could feed all the children, house the homeless, clothe the African tribes, cure Aids, go back to the moon, and build interstellar spacecraft with improbability drives. We'd all be shiny happy people holding hands, singing and hugging and eating magic brownies and stuff. If only that big bad Bushitler had stayed out of Iraq.

Now, did you have something relevant to add to the discussion, or did you want to keep trolling?

Re:So now we have the

[aproposofwhat]

Sorry, pal - the deputy PM of Israel must have misspoken.

The proper corollary is - as time goes on, the probability that Israel will fuck everything up for the rest of us tends asymptotically to 1.

It's not Jews, you idiot - it's that state of madmen that we allowed to grow in the Middle East out of misplaced guilt.