StringJunky

Here's an overview from Harvard: https://courses.seas.harvard.edu/climate/eli/Courses/EPS281r/Sources/Gaia/Gaia-hypothesis-wikipedia.pdf

Yep, my friend, an avid football fan, said striker Harry Kane was 'garbage' in the Euros. The thing is, national teams aren't playing together week in week out, so don't really gel most times.

Just search for Daisy World. I'm sure you'll find more mathematical treatments. It's used by NASA to determine the potential of life on planets and requirements for colonization. It's not pseudo-garbage. The range of its influence in natural processes is still unclear though. Lovelock will be 102 in a few days, I read. Geological sulphur chemistry, such as at hydrothermal vents interacting with bacterial species is an example of where life interfaces with the inorganic, geological processes. Marine organisms, like phytoplankton, producing dimethyl sulphide (DMS) that is an initial step to the formation of rain clouds. Sulphur cycle. Lovelock's books are worth reading. He was the first to use microwave radiation from a continuous wave magnetron to cook a potato in 1954. Smart chap. His anthropomorphization of living systems interacting with natural processes has annoyed some scientists over years, but the guts of what he says has stood the test of time, I think. NASA uses uses it as a model, so, there's that.

Think of the the profit if they actually won.

Have you guys heard of 'Daisy World'? This is the model used to explain GH in its most basic terms. Here's a NASA vid on the subject of albedo and negative feedback loops.

Scrub this. I'm mixing quantum with classical.

So, what happens when it reaches the Planck limit?

My guts were correct. England need to stop 'bigging it up' pre-match and just shut up and get on with the job.

If that happens, and Trump gets in, we'll likely be moving away from the US. It doesn't help Ukraine in the long term, but I think people will be talking about shifting the axis of geopolitical influence. NATO is already talking about what to do to mitigate a Trump presidency. I can see the UK putting more effort into Europe. It would have been a nightmare if the Tories had got back in because quite a few lean MAGA right and pro-Trump.

You mean politically in the US? War-wise it seems to be fairly stalemate for now.

A two-faced political marriage of convenience with all the resilience of a house built on sand.

I did see it, but probably got removed at source. I'll bet a pound to a penny that most people went "Damn!".

We can be grateful it happened now and not near the election. I'm fairly sure other stuff and time itself will make it just another memory. A week is a long time in politics.

And you have to have them serviced every couple years or so. The costs don't stop after buying timepieces of that precision and complexity.

I am in concordance with your thoughts. Fascism is on the rise. It's in full swing in Israel as well. Hungary. France, also, if Marine La Pen had won. This trend is mostly a reaction to a rate of migration that disturbs the populations of target countries, I think. People are just going to have to get used to a major effect of climate change. People are going to move away from much of the equator to the north as resources dwindle because of it. The anti-immigrant sentiments will only get louder. I don't know the solution. Perhaps nature will just do what it will. It's not going to be pretty.

That can be muted if the Project 25 manifesto is kept front and centre up to the election.

When you support England, you know the meaning of disappointment... like our weather.

I'm not surprised. Could happen the other way too.

That works for me. The optical contrast between them and Trump would be glaring and probably have more people, especially gender equality-minded women going to vote, not to mention the landmark nature of such a pairing. A Newsome/Harris pairing could work as well. Harris needs to be there as a familiar face in any of the combinations, I think.

The owners have learned from the bitter experience of mouldy bathrooms and apartments. A friend has a university student house and it is a big problem.

Hilary blew it with the email thing. It came across as entitled behaviour iirc.

Trump, but that's not an option, so if the other lame horse steps aside, a relatively young filly can increase the optical contrast between them and make the voters choice easier. She'd also be the first female Prez, which would be a landmark, just as Obama did. From where I sit Harris would create better optics for the the swing voters who are not overly partisan for either side.

Whatever the cause, it doesn't really matter, Biden's recent behaviour is still evident and can't be disputed. If a person is driving a car erratically, it doesn't matter what caused them to do so, they need taking off the road. You find that out after.

It's quite possible that I'm off the mark. The reason I put my post up was because I thought, maybe wrongly, the focus on purely chemical processes was far too fundamental/low level to be talking about Gaia-type processes in the same breathe.

What about about all the living systems, directly or indirectly modulating the environment according to their needs? Amongst all the various competitions for resources there can be an overarching homeostasis that allows a certain range of organisms to exist simultaneously. within the parameters of that prevailing environment and maintain it. There are also endosymbiotic and ectosymbiotic relationships that between them can modulate their immediate environment. Then you have microscopic organisms and plant life recycling carbon dioxide and other materials whose effects are environmentally global in their effects, so you have hierarchies of organisms all doing their job of maintaining an Earth-sized environment that sustains them together. That's homeostasis in my book. If people want to call that overarching process 'Gaia' that's fine with me. I know what they mean.