text: 102,35,1255790835221872640,1087849177642610690,R.J. Graham☆彡,"A new paper on the arxiv by yours truly and @ClimateBook (the 1st paper that will be in my thesis), examining the consequences of thermodynamic and energetic limits to continental silicate weathering for climate on Earth-like planets 🌋🌧️🏔️🌊 <LINK> @AndrewIWilliams @ClimateBook lmao i am now going to include an image or gif of Hannibal saying this in all of my future discussions of the WHAK model @AndrewIWilliams @ClimateBook Bye bye Ray!! <LINK>",https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14058,"The ""liquid water habitable zone"" (HZ) concept is predicated on the ability of the silicate weathering feedback to stabilize climate across a wide range of instellations. However, representations of silicate weathering used in current estimates of the effective outer edge of the HZ do not account for the thermodynamic limit on concentration of weathering products in runoff set by clay precipitation, nor for the energetic limit on precipitation set by planetary instellation. We find that when the thermodynamic limit is included in an idealized coupled climate/weathering model, steady-state planetary climate loses sensitivity to silicate dissolution kinetics, becoming sensitive to temperature primarily through the effect of temperature on runoff and to pCO$_2$ through an effect on solute concentration mediated by pH. This increases sensitivity to land fraction, CO$_2$ outgassing, and geological factors such as soil age and lithology, all of which are found to have a profound effect on the position of the effective outer edge of the HZ. The interplay between runoff sensitivity and the energetic limit on precipitation leads to novel warm states in the outer reaches of the HZ, owing to the decoupling of temperature and precipitation. We discuss strategies for detecting the signature of silicate weathering feedback through exoplanet observations in light of insights derived from the revised picture of weathering. ","Thermodynamic and Energetic Limits on Continental Silicate Weathering