Yeah, man! It's a new age.
Posted on 01/31/2008 9:37:24 AM PST by forkinsocket
Humans have altered Earth so much that scientists say a new epoch in the planet's geologic history has begun.
Say goodbye to the 10,000-year-old Holocene Epoch and hello to the Anthropocene.
Among the major changes heralding this two-century-old man-made epoch:
Vastly altered sediment erosion and deposition patterns. Major disturbances to the carbon cycle and global temperature. Wholesale changes in biology, from altered flowering times to new migration patterns. Acidification of the ocean, which threatens tiny marine life that forms the bottom of the food chain. The idea, first suggested in 2000 by Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen, has gained steam with two new scientific papers that call for official recognition of the shift.
Vivid metaphor
In the February issue of the journal GSA Today, a publication of the Geological Society of America, Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams of the University of Leicester and colleagues at the Geological Society of London argue that industrialization has wrought changes that usher in a new epoch.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Here’s a link:
http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2005/01/28/disaster-averted/
It is the era of the Red Tide rising. Red as in Communist-Socialist, and former “Democrat state victory” color.
They threaten to drown all dissent.
Scientology, Nation of Islam, and Uforians are examples of cults that admitedly originate on another planet...
Check Wikipedia for the composition of the atmosphere. You have a better chance of finding Waldo in a puzzle, than you do of finding a CO2 molecule in the air. CO2’s negligible effect is completely buried by changes in the sun’s temperature and earth’s axis.
Thank you for that. I getting kind of misty-eyed right about now.
“Anthropocene Epoch”
Our Anthrophagous governments will fit right in!
Bravo-Sierra
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Romeo-India-Gulf-Hotel-Tango.
Yeah, man! It's a new age.
I think it would be interesting to see the Empire State building fossilized in a sedimentary road cut about 50 million years from now.
I remembered all of the words!
A new rage.
The only way to fix this problem....is to kill off 99 percent of the human population...to save the earth. I would suggest we reserve the earth for Texans and let them repopulate the earth.
This is supposed to be a democracy, right?
Let me get to my ping list < /s >
It’s all subjective so they can move their goalposts all they want until another scientist finds their math (if any) and finds it faulty.
What if you held a conference, and no (real) scientists came?
Global Warming on Free Republic
I guess the whole "global warming/climate change" hysteria is running out of steam, so now they need a new and improved crisis to keep the fear factor up....
OK, it’s a little early to make THAT call.
Actually, I’m going to pull the ultimate in anthrocentric arrogance -
every epoch prior to ours existed to provide us with the environment and resources for us to thrive.
That includes water, oxygen, and fossil fuels.
Provided that the ice-age cycle continues eventually with another glacial period, it could be argued by humans 50-100,000 years in the future -- that's looking a long way out -- that the Holocene was just a long interglacial in the Pleistocene. I think that the Holocene is given special status becauze it happens to be the first interglacial featuring organized human civilization.
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