Go on to the next article / content Gravity and the Thermodynamics of Human Economy and Existence The prerequisitions of life The physical order of the material world The source and the sink Fast forward to life on Earth You cannot short-circuit a thermodynamic process and then expect it to go on A perhaps clearer summary of the above A Second Opinion The prerequisitions of life " What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy. ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of he orderliness (=fairly low level of entropy) really consists continually sucking orderliness from its environment. ... An organism's astonishing gift of concentrating a 'stream of order' on itself and thus escaping that the decay into atomic chaos - of 'drinking orderliness' from a suitable environment - seems to be connected with the presence of the '
Copied from thermodynamicsociety.substack.com Introduction and historical Abstract Cause and effect of past and future variations in the levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere and its surface temperature I shall assume , in the following, that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) indeed does have the potential to have a positive effect on the world's average superficial temperature (the so-called greenhouse effect ), and that the measurements and resulting assumptions and graphic depictions, shown here, of past levels of atmospheric CO2 and superficial temperatures - within their stated temporal and spatial limitations - are correct , and that any other statements and depictions I call upon as witness are correct as well; and meaningful . If this is so , then a simple evaluation of the following graphs, for which there are either multiple sources, such as for the following ( from here ): or, from he