With MS Research Help, UN Attempts To Model All of Earth's Ecosystems

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft Research and UN scientists have teamed up to build the first general-purpose computer model of whole ecosystems across the entire world. The project was detailed in a recent Nature article [note: yet another expensively paywalled original article] titled 'Ecosystems: Time to model all life on Earth.'"

Comments

Re:YABSFMS - yet another buggy system from MS

[durrr]

They'll just put politicians as apex predators and key to preserving biodiversity, then claim they've filled in all the important spots and only have to add some minor details to finalize it.

Re:It'll just be blue

[SeaFox]

And then we'll get the message that it was caused by a global warming overflow and be prompted to reboot and start over again

... but we wont be able to reboot.