OK....not what you thought...daisyworld is a model by James Lovelock to back up his Gaia theory in effect.

I read about the Gaia theory/hypothesis (to cover both the weak and the strong) more years back than I care to remember whilst in Uni. I would probably have to put my hand up and say that this is what got me 'thinking outside the box' on all other aspects of life and my own. Always looking at the 'what if' and always testing 'given 'perameters of 'mainstream' thought.

"James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS, Ph.D (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, environmentalist and futurologist who lives in Devon, England. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the biosphere is a self-regulating entity with the capacity to keep our planet healthy by controlling the chemical and physical environment.

First formulated by Lovelock during the 1960s as a result of work for NASA concerned with detecting life on Mars,[18] the Gaia hypothesis proposes that living and non-living parts of the Earth form a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism.[19][20] Named after the Greek goddess Gaia at the suggestion of novelist William Golding,[15] the hypothesis postulates that the biosphere has a regulatory effect on the Earth's environment that acts to sustain life.

While the Gaia hypothesis was readily accepted by many in the environmentalist community, it has not been widely accepted within the scientific community. Among its more famous critics are the evolutionary biologists Richard Dawkins, Ford Doolittle, and Stephen Jay Gould – notable, given the diversity of this trio's views on other scientific matters. These (and other) critics have questioned how natural selection operating on individual organisms can lead to the evolution of planetary-scale homeostasis.[21] Lovelock has responded to these criticisms with models such as Daisyworld, that illustrate how individual-level effects can translate to planetary homeostasis, under the right circumstances.

In Lovelock's 2006 book, The Revenge of Gaia, he argues that the lack of respect humans have had for Gaia, through the damage done to rainforests and the reduction in planetary biodiversity, is testing Gaia's capacity to minimize the effects of the addition of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This eliminates the planet's negative feedbacks and increases the likelihood of homeostatic positive feedback potential associated with runaway global warming. Similarly the warming of the oceans is extending the oceanic thermocline layer of tropical oceans into the Arctic and Antarctic waters, preventing the rise of oceanic nutrients into the surface waters and eliminating the algal blooms of phytoplankton on which oceanic food chains depend. As phytoplankton and forests are the main ways in which Gaia draws down greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, taking it out of the atmosphere, the elimination of this environmental buffering will see, according to Lovelock, most of the earth becoming uninhabitable for humans and other life-forms by the middle of this century, with a massive extension of tropical deserts."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock#Gaia



Please have a look at the documentary.

This is a short one about the daisy model produced by NASA


A man who thought outside the box to the point of not even acknowledging its existence.


Jane

PS....for all our new 'fac's' out there...please move to Earth Matters in a couple of days....ta very muchly

Most of that is a bit over my head... but the basic concept is an interesting theory/hypothesis, and if taking into the account, the belief, that the Earth is a living being I can see how she might take offense and be unable to balance certain things.

I was always fascinated by the daisyworld idea, it's only recently that I found out it isn't just a fanciful idea, there are many systems on the earth that work in this way
StarsChildren wrote:
it's not as complicated as it seems at first glance.
Daisyworld is just a way of viewing the world as a self regulating system, and it shows that climate change is nonsense