The physiology of the planet

Article Abstract:

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.

Analysis, Observations, Physiological regulation, Biological control systems, Ecological research, Plant ecophysiology, Plant physiological ecology

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What drives climate?

Article Abstract:

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.

Environmental aspects, Climatic changes, Climate change, Atmospheric carbon dioxide

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Chill taken out of the tropics

Article Abstract:

Issues concerning palaeoclimatology are discussed. In particular the interaction of tropical sea surface temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations is examined.

Ocean-atmosphere interaction, Greenhouse effect, Paleoclimatology

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