In Mike Mann's new book, Our Fragile Moment, he does a good job reviewing a number of key concepts in Climate change - among them, the Daisy World hypotheses, that was an early, simplified model of how life on Earth, within limits, can operate to maintain climate stability. Wikipedia: Daisyworld, a computer simulation, is a hypothetical…
Human civilization came to be thanks to the comparatively stable climate of the past 10,000 years. But the unchecked burning of fossil fuels is undermining that foundation, according to a leading climate scientist. “There is no analog in the past for the rapid warming” we are seeing today, Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann argued.…