2 papers
astro-ph.EP2021
Triggering A Climate Change Dominated "Anthropocene": Is It Common Among Exocivilizations?
Ethan Savitch, Adam Frank, Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback +3
We seek to model the coupled evolution of a planet and a civilization through the era when energy harvesting by the civilization drives the planet into new and adverse climate stat…
astro-ph.EP2017
Earth as a Hybrid Planet - The Anthropocene in an Evolutionary Astrobiological Context
Adam Frank, Axel Kleidon, Marina Alberti
We develop a classification scheme for the evolutionary state of planets based on the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of their coupled systems, including the presence of a biosphere…