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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."
Obesity rate in USA reach a stunning record high...
Or even value profit for more people over profit for your buddies.
Every coal-fired power plant in India, China, and the USA could be replaced with nuclear for the cost of the Iraq war. This would be a huge windfall for General Electric and other businesses that happen to be in the business of making nuke plants. (It would, of course, be a windfall for the environment as well.) But we've not done this because Bush is cozier with the military-industrial complex and the oil industry.
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.
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?
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.
One swallow does not a fellatrix make
Piss off, fuckwit.
Sorry, you must have missed the last 50 years of history where the rest of the Middle East has been doing the same thing to Israel.Piss off, fuckwit.