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Climate Change Driven “Anthropocenes”: Are They Common Among Exo-Civilizations?
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  • Ethan Savitch,
  • Adam Frank,
  • Jacob Haqq-Misra,
  • Jonathan Carrol-Nellenback
Ethan Savitch
University of Rochester, University of Rochester, University of Rochester, University of Rochester

Corresponding Author:esavitch@u.rochester.edu

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Adam Frank
University of Rochester, University of Rochester, University of Rochester
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Jacob Haqq-Misra
Blue Marble Space Institute of Science: Seattle, Washington, US, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science: Seattle, Washington, US, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science: Seattle, Washington, US
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Jonathan Carrol-Nellenback
University of Rochester, University of Rochester, University of Rochester
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Abstract

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 states. In this way we ask if “anthropocenes” of the kind humanity is experiencing might be a generic feature of planet-civilization evolution. In this study we focus on the effects of energy harvesting via combustion and vary the planet’s initial chemistry and orbital radius.