This article interestingly looks at weathering of rocks and the correlation between warmer climate and increased weathering and then the resulting chemical reactions in the water which impacts atmospheric concentrations of CO2. It implies CO2 is the climate regulator as opposed to CO2 being a variable dependent on other, stronger influences on climate (clouds, rainfall, solar activity, total solar insolation, etc.). Interesting comment threads too.
I was taught in high school in the 70’s that clouds and the phases of water perform this function. Read about it in Scientific American as well sometime in the 80’s or 90’s. But we now have first proof!~ctm
August 15, 2017
New data provides the first proof that the Earth has a natural thermostat which enables the planet to recover from extremes of climate change – but the recovery timescales are significant. This work is presented today at the Goldschmidt conference in Paris, and has just been published in the peer-reviewed journal Geochemical Perspectives Letters.
The idea of a natural temperature thermostat was first proposed in 1981, but until now no-one has been able to provide data to show that the recovery from the hot and cold temperature fluctuations were associated with a specific mechanism.
Now a group of British scientists has shown that recovery from…
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