#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

2017.178 - 2039.3 Adam Frank

The biosphere, in some sense, knows what is happening because of these feedbacks. So it's still unclear whether we have these full Gaian feedbacks, but we certainly have semi-Gaian feedbacks. If there's a perturbation on the planetary scale, temperature, you know, insulation, how much sunlight's coming in, the biosphere will start to have feedbacks that will damp that perturbation.