Category: Edge Science
Star Charts, Big Rocks, & the Younger Dryas Debate
Gobekli Tepe memorialized a Near-Extinction Event, a key site for “schools of recitation” & the rebooting of civilization?
Plants Rule Water Cycle, Water Cycle Rules Climate?
“Plants are really the thermostat of the world.” #BioticPump #GaiaHypothesis
E.M. Thrivability Band on Gaia?
Weird thought exercise for the day: Visualizing the narrow band of temperature that allows life to thrive – basically -30F to +130F – how ridiculously improbable it is that most of our
DUNE: Sayings of the Zen-Sunni Wanderers
Ignore the space opera trappings. Dune goes deep.
Early Dune illo by John Schoenherr.
Vernadsky! Originator of ‘Biosfera’ Concept – Life as a Geological Force on Earth
Vernadsky! …the Earth’s atmosphere itself, consisting primarily of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon, is the creation of life. – Vernadsky Yeah, before Lovelock and the Gaia Hypothesis, long before Gorshkov / Makarieva’s “Biotic
Civilization & Planet-Killers, a Short & Mutable List
1. Cascading ecosystem degradation from deforestation, overfishing, habitat destruction of insects and birds, etc. Pollutants in waterways including synthetic fertilizer loads and wipeout of invisible microbial and microrrhyzal ecosystems over large regions
Feedbacks in Climate
For a few years we were looking for a neat table comparing all climate feedbacks side by side. Finally we found one in this new study about how feedbacks are handled in
