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Anastassia Makarieva
Personal blog · bioticregulation.substack.comscience
Anastassia Makarieva writes Biotic Regulation and Biotic Pump, a personal blog at bioticregulation.substack.com about science. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Anastassia Makarieva's Substack posts on the biotic pump and on forests' role in climate, including in threads on ocean temperatures and El Niño.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
How natural ecosystems keep our planet habitable.
What Hacker News says?
Some interesting, recent discussion: "Interview at the Technical University of Munich: Not only are forests more complex than is commonly realized, they also do more." [1] [1]: https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/in-focus-green-ocean...
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on “Forests offset warming more than thought: study”How about a new perspective on this, the biotic pump? "When you are confined within the civilized scientific discourse and can't cry out 'It's the biosphere, stupid!'" Please read what Anastassia Makarieva had to say on "the kid" 2 years ago: https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/seeing-forests-throu... Could we stop chopping down trees from primary forests in the Amazon to save the planet for us humans? Could we…
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on “Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms”>I think climate scientists can enumerate major carbon sources and sinks Science has no idea where 2-3 gigatons of carbon go every year. That's a BIG number. And it is a big deal. And it has been missing for decades now. All the time you were calling someone a science denier, you've been completely unaware that you can't even account for all the major carbon sources/sinks. https://www2.nau.edu/~gaud/bio326/class/eco…
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on “U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears”