Posted on 07/11/2023 3:53:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on the Earth with such strength and permanence since the middle of the 20th century that a special team of scientists says a new geologic epoch began then.
Called the Anthropocene — and derived from the Greek terms for “human” and “new” — this epoch started sometime between 1950 and 1954, according to the scientists. While there is evidence worldwide that captures the impact of burning fossil fuels, detonating nuclear weapons and dumping fertilizers and plastics on land and in waterways, the scientists are proposing a small but deep lake outside of Toronto, Canada — Crawford Lake — to place a historic marker.
“It’s quite clear that the scale of change has intensified unbelievably and that has to be human impact,” said University of Leicester geologist Colin Waters, who chaired the Anthropocene Working Group.
This puts the power of humans in a somewhat similar class with the meteorite that crashed into Earth 66 million years ago, killing off dinosaurs and starting the Cenozoic Era, or what is conversationally known as the age of mammals. But not quite. While that meteorite started a whole new era, the working group is proposing that humans only started a new epoch, which is a much smaller geologic time period.
The idea of the Anthropocene was proposed at a science conference more than 20 years ago by the late Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen. Teams of scientists have debated the issue since then and finally set up the working group to study whether it was needed and, if so, when the epoch would start and where it would be commemorated.
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Altar boy Seth lighting candles for the Church of Global Warming.
Figures, once again commies try to pin problems on the ‘50s, the last decade of decency, lawfulness and normalcy in the US.
Omg really a human epoch 😵💫🤡🤯
What new faggotry is this?
So now they are putting a starting date as to when their fake climate science began?
Wonderful.
Almost no serious geologist buys into this definition.
Another chapter in the narrative to justify enslaving the common man so that the elites can feast. How ‘bout the people whining about overpopulation (liberals) make the ultimate sacrifice for the planet?
Democraziesopod...
the science gone mad period that started when democrats took over control of any science and decided to replace real science with politically motivated junk science and willy-nilly decided to redefine naturally occurring events and called them crises.
There’s also a new epoch in “journalism.” And it isn’t about telling the truth or finding the facts.
"While the seven AWG members formed a broad consensus about the Anthropocene’s history and the term's significance, they took contrasting views when invited by director Steve Bradshaw to consider the Anthropocene either as a tragedy - with extinctions and upheavals - or as a dark comedy."
Wiki on "Anthropocene Working Group"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene_Working_Group
I favor "dark comedy." After all, "send in the clowns" with so many entertainers opining on everything, everywhere and all the time.
Scientists? Uh....no.
Folks who wouldn’t have a job, save for corrupt ‘gubmit’ and universities? H*ll yes.
More like the “Idiocene”, which started in 1848 with the publication of the Communist Manifesto.
Then you can’t blame this one on the baby boomer generation!! The oldest of them were barely out of diapers!!
AP has no shame. Borenstein has been called out a zillion times over the years for his extreme, exaggerated, misleading disinformation about the earth’s climate, yet AP doesn’t get rid of him to save further embarrassment!
Full of Bovinium Scatum.
https://www.designingdisney.com/parks/disneyland-resort/grand-opening-disneyland/
“Southern California was suffering from a record heat wave with temperatures of over a 100 degrees Fahrenheit.”
Current temperature: 85 degrees Fahrenheit
There was I specie loss till Man came along…
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Well there was no climate change till man came along….
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Well human activity is causing climate change…
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It’s reassuring that “scientists” are saying this. It’d suck if it was people who are always wrong about everything…
…Oh wait…
Democrats are satanic liars.
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