"Benj" wrote in message
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On Jun 22, 9:42 pm, "Robert J. Kolker" wrote:

And according to the Gaia Hypothesis, life on Earth itself will evolve
to absorb and subsume any climate conditions that will lead to runaway
greenhouse effects.

The planet is not a living organism. Organism live on the planet.

And the way you know this for such a certainty is? Oh that's right.
FAITH!

I love faith-based science, don't you?

I especially love those who have such unquestioned authority that they
can simply answer all questions with unshakable assertion that is
obviously so authoritative that none dare question it! Love, ya,
Bob!


Well, unless you know of some life form that can survive without liquid
water and can breath "live" steam, I'd say that Bob is right.

The runaway greenhouse predicted for Earth would be the result of solar
luminosity increase giving rise to extra CO2 and water vapour, hence
greenhouse feedback into yet higher temperatures.

By the way, the Gaia Hypothesis is just that, a hypothesis, or conjecture,
proposed as an explanation of certain observations in the fossil record. It
hasn't reached the status of a theory, yet.

--
Mike Dworetsky

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