Jargon Watch: Is a Nation Climate-Fit or Climate-Weak?

Nov 02, 2009

TreeHugger: photo: Meena Kadri via flickr.While climate change may pay no heed to human political boundaries, how well people cope with the effects of a global warming can have a lot to do with those boundaries. Some countries are climate-fit while others are climate-weak, argues a new piece by Gaia Vance in Yale Environment 360. Now, (Read More)

Topics: Climate Change, environment, Gaia

Nuclear Waste Can Protect Tropical Forests

Jul 23, 2009

TreeHugger: Let’s just consider James Lovelock’s idea for a second: Dump our nuclear waste into the tropical forests and other areas that need protecting from human activity such as as farming or construction, to conserve them.This is one of climate scientist James Lovelock’s solutions to the often-asked question of what to do with nuc (Read More)

Topics: Gaia

James Lovelock: “I hope we are civilised when climate disaster strikes”

Jul 13, 2009

Green Blog: The Inter Press Service has an interesting interview with James Lovelock, known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, about everything from the IPCC to geo-engineering and climate tipping points.Lovelock has earlier said that he believes that climate change is now irreversible. He predicts that the major part of the humans, mo (Read More)

Topics: Gaia, Climate Change, Global Warming

James Lovelock’s One Last Chance to Save Humanity From Climate Change: Burying Large Amounts of Charcoal in the Ground

Jan 23, 2009

TreeHugger: For those that don’t know who James Lovelock is here’s the one sentence bio: Originator of the Gaia hypothesis, chemist, did work on atmospheric chlorofluorocarbons which eventually led them from being banned, advocate of nuclear power. Which is to say, that when James Lovelock says humanity only has one chance left not to (Read More)

Topics: Climate Change, Gaia, Global Warming

deoxy.wiki : The Noosphere and The Gaian Mind

Dec 09, 2008

Submitted by Metapsyche from Delicious: The noosphere is analogous on a planetary level to the evolution of the cerebral cortex in humans. The noosphere is a "planetary thinking network" — an interlinked system of consciousness and information, a global net of self-awareness, instantaneous feedback, and planetary communication. (Read More)

Topics: earth, Gaia

James Lovelock on Geoengineering

Sep 19, 2008

Submitted by Metapsyche: The iconic environmentalist and originator of the Gaia hypothesis has a couple of cautionary words about the hubris of artificially fiddling with nature: "Before we start geoengineering we have to raise the following question: are we sufficiently talented to take on what might become the onerous permanent task of keeping th (Read More)

Topics: Gaia

Quote of the Day: James Lovelock on Geoengineering

Sep 01, 2008

TreeHugger: Whether you love him or dismiss him, James Lovelock may be the staunchest pessimist around for the future of humanity on a warming planet. But the iconic environmentalist and originator of the Gaia hypothesis has a couple of cautionary words about the hubris of artificially fiddling with nature: "Before we start geoenginee (Read More)

Topics: Climate Change, Planet, Gaia

Super-Earth vs. ExoGaia

Jun 20, 2008

Exoplanetology: Super-Earth. It conjures a visceral imagery of an earthy ocean-blue in our minds. Just because it contains the word "Earth" brings people to think that it is similar to our world - full of life, and well...Earth-like.The truth is that it is a misnomer.The basis of any terrestrial exoplanet being called a Super-Earth is base (Read More)

Topics: earth, Gaia

ExoGaia Hypothesis

May 06, 2008

Submitted by Metapsyche from Digg: An Exoplanetologist coins "ExoGaia" in the application of The Gaia Hypothesis to Exoplanets. (Read More)

Topics: Gaia

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