The Discovery of Global Warming |
August 2003 [HOME] List of illustrations BACK to "Biosphere" - BACK to "Simple Models" Climate interactions: this 1974 summary of feedbacks was a pioneering attempt to show the complexity of the system. Nowhere did biology appear explicitly... ... whereas a mid-1980s "wiring diagram" put biology in the center. An extract is below; the whole diagram can be seen by clicking here (big file, 118k).
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