World Getting 'Literally Greener'

BBC ^ | 3-28-2004 | Alex Kirby

[Betaille]

This is very good... the Ents will be happy, :)

[VRWC For Truth]

It's Bush's fault that it isn't greener than it is. [/sarcasm]

[Focault's Pendulum]

I planted a grass seed in the crack between my sidewalk.....I just knew it would change things for the better. I would have planted two....but I was afraid I might upset the oxygen/nitogen balance.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[squidly]

The environmental problems facing small island states, like poverty, natural disasters and declining fish stocks

Poverty is an environmental problem now?

[areafiftyone]

NOT TRUE!! (Al Gore umm I mean Al Green said so)

[babble-on]

greenhouse gases are turning the planet into a veritable greenhouse. the plentiful carbon-dioxide we have provided out friends in the vegetable kingdom by burning carbon-based deposits has given plants explosive new growth potential. drive a hummer, save a tree today/

[blam]

Top 10 Wettest Cities in the USA

1) Quillayute, Washington State - - 105"
2) Highlands, North Carolina - - 86"
3) Astoria, Oregon - - 66"
4) Tallahassee, Florida - - 65"
5) Mobile, Alabama - - 64"
6) Pensacola, Florida - - 63"
7) New Orleans, Louisiana - - 62"
8) Baton Rouge, Louisiana - - 61"
9) West Palm Beach, Florida - - 60"
10) Meridian, Mississippi - - 57"

I live in Mobile, we are having the driest March ever recorded.

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[familyop]

Good. Now let's open up the lumber industry to competition again instead of doing it the current commie way.

[xJones]

Satellite data show plant growth has been measurably more vigorous over the last 25 years.

It's the kudzu.

[gogipper]

Doesn't ANYBODY understand statistics anymore?

[Outraged]

The world seems to have begun to turn greener.

Then...Unep executive director Klaus Toepfer, says: "Without concerted action, about a third of the world's population is likely to suffer from chronic water shortages within a few decades."

Huh?

[txhurl]

We have to hack down more forests and obliterate more amber waves o'grain prairies because they're locking up too much water.

I still say it's the water hyacinth and the duckweed.

And grass carp.

[Chewbacca]

An increase in CO2 means more food for plants.

[Lil'freeper]

About a third of the world is still covered with forests.

Wow, that's pretty good... considering how much of the world is covered with oceans, deserts, grasslands, tundra, ice, and the like.

[Mark]

And John Stossel visits a 3rd grade PUBLIC school class room where all the chilrun scream in unison, "NO! They're lying!"

[The Great RJ]

There is a recent book in which a modern day photographer sets out to locate the exact spots where a photographer on Gen. Custer's 1875 expedition to the South Dakota Black Hills made his photographs and duplicate the modern view. In comparing these photos one is immediately struck by the extensive forests in the year 2000 photos that were absent in the 1875 photos. More than 100 years of planting new trees and putting out forest fires has made the Black Hills a far greener place than they were when they were untouched by civilization.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

So what. Readings haven't been recorded for that long of a time period and there will always be highs and lows...