The physiology of the planet
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Global self-regulation is the natural result of interactions between the biota and the physical world. The mechanism is comparable to the hormonal regulation of glucose in human blood and the self-regulation of white and black daisies to control the global temperature in a physiological analogy. A new scientific approach, geophysiology, sees life and the physical world as units of a global system capable of environmental regulation.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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What drives climate?
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The assumption that atmospheric carbon dioxide is the driving force for global climate change is questioned by research which has reconstructed tropical sea surface temperatures for the last 450 million years and which suggests that these predictions may be unreliable.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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Chill taken out of the tropics
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Issues concerning palaeoclimatology are discussed. In particular the interaction of tropical sea surface temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations is examined.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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