New Era Has Officially Started?

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48 minutes ago, Computer said:

Scientists Say a New Geological Epoch Called the Anthropocene Is Here

The Earth has entered a new geological epoch defined by human impact, scientists say.

Humanity’s influence on the Earth is so great, an entirely new geological epoch called the Anthropocene should be declared, according to scientists from the Working Group on the Anthropocene, who recommended the change to the International Geological Congress in Cape Town on Monday, theGuardian reported.

The Anthropocene epoch should begin in about 1950, as man-made developments ended the geological time defined by the current epoch, the Holocene, the scientists said. The Holocene encompasses the 12,000 years since the last ice age.

Mid-20th century phenomena, such as carbon dioxide emissions, rising sea levels, the global mass extinction of species and deforestation, have ended the Holocene epoch, the scientists said. The Anthropocene would be defined geologically by the effects of nuclear bomb tests, plastic pollution, concrete and more, according to scientists.

“The significance of the Anthropocene is that it sets a different trajectory for the Earth system, of which we of course are part,” Prof. Jan Zalasiewicz, a geologist at the University of Leicester and chair of the Working Group on the Anthropocene told theGuardian.

The Working Group on the Anthropocene has researched the epoch since 2009.

“If our recommendation is accepted, the Anthropocene will have started just a little before I was born,” Zalasiewicz said. “We have lived most of our lives in something called the Anthropocene and are just realizing the scale and permanence of the change.”

 

Source:

http://time.com/4470514/anthropocene-geological-epoch-earth-scientists/?xid=gonewsedit&google_editors_picks=true

I swear I've read this exact same article in here some months back. Or was it deja vu? 

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Just now, A Gaga Lad said:

I swear I've read this exact same article in here some months back. Or was it deja vu? 

I havent seen it but if its ap i will request closed/ merged

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1 minute ago, PaperIz said:

Sounds fun  

Sarcasm of course. This is so sad. And there are so many people that choose to just ignore the problem of climate change.

And one of them is running for president

Sorry to make it political  but it's so important. For anyone that cares...

Spoiler

Hillary traveled with a climate adviser as secretary of state and laid the foundation for the Paris Accords. She historically got China to agree to lower their emissions and they're actually well ahead of schedule! She has the endorsement of nearly every environmental group thanks to her plan to restructure our energy sector, lower our own emissions, and have us running on green technology...I forget her specific goals but they're on her site for anyone that's curious. It's actually a more effective and realistic plan than Bernie's was and will get us to a better goal in a shorter period of time (I remember being salty about that detail when I decided to look up her policies )

Meanwhile, Trump has only referred to climate change twice. One (in a tweet) to call it a "Chinese conspiracy to weaken the U.S. economy" and again (also in a tweet), on a cold day to say "We sure could use some 'global warming' right about now!"

Make the right choice, Americans

 

2 minutes ago, Gaga of Time said:

Dey coming for your booty hunty 

Bring it

2 minutes ago, Simon said:

What I mean is that we as being our generation won't know how large the mass extinction will be. Species impacting climate is maybe not that uncommon. I'm currently doing a research about micro-organism who might had cool down the earth. Really interesting. Though of course they didn't produce plastic etc. like we do. 

I just don't think that we can define a geological era now. Future people can, but I don't know if we can. 

Ah, I see your point  

I don't really care about the name change or that we're calling it a different era, just that it's so drastically different now that some believe we should be calling it by a different name. Of course it'll be up to future scientists to uphold that decision or not, so you're right.