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Daisyworld is the name of a model developed by Andrew Watson and James Lovelock (published in 1983) to demonstrate how organisms could inadvertently regulate their environment [1]. The model simulates a fictional planet (called Daisyworld) which is experiencing slow global warming due to the brightening of the Sun. The planet is populated by ...
James Ephraim Lovelock CH CBE FRS (26 July 1919 – 26 July 2022) was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis , which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system.
James Lovelock called his first proposal the Gaia hypothesis but has also used the term Gaia theory. Lovelock states that the initial formulation was based on observation, but still lacked a scientific explanation. The Gaia hypothesis has since been supported by a number of scientific experiments [45] and provided a number of useful predictions ...
2008-01-29 17:52 Bruno Comby 2048×1536×8 (1032613 bytes) A 2005 photograph of [[James Lovelock]], scientist and author best known for the [[Gaia hypothesis]]. Photograph taken by Bruno Comby of Environmentalists for Nuclear.
The game models the Gaia hypothesis of James Lovelock (who assisted with the design and wrote an introduction to the manual), and one of the options available to the player is the simplified "Daisyworld" model. [4] SimEarth screenshot, IBM PC version. In this simulated planet, radiates have developed sentience and are beginning to form ...
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Schematic diagram of the anti-CLAW hypothesis (Lovelock, 2006) [1] The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back – and How We Can Still Save Humanity (2006) is a book by James Lovelock . Some editions of the book have a different, less optimistic subtitle: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity .
One of the earliest significant publications on Gaia was a 1974 paper co-authored by Lovelock and Margulis, which succinctly defined the hypothesis as follows: "The notion of the biosphere as an active adaptive control system able to maintain the Earth in homeostasis we are calling the 'Gaia hypothesis.'" [26]