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Scientists say a new epoch marked by humans’ impact on Earth -- the Anthropocene -- began in 1950s
The Associated Press ^ | July 11, 2023 | BY SETH BORENSTEIN (D-AP)

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0chat; anthropocene; chat; climatechangehoax; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 07/11/2023 3:53:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Altar boy Seth lighting candles for the Church of Global Warming.


2 posted on 07/11/2023 3:55:54 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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Figures, once again commies try to pin problems on the ‘50s, the last decade of decency, lawfulness and normalcy in the US.


3 posted on 07/11/2023 4:00:05 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Omg really a human epoch 😵‍💫🤡🤯


4 posted on 07/11/2023 4:00:33 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What new faggotry is this?


5 posted on 07/11/2023 4:02:46 PM PDT by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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So now they are putting a starting date as to when their fake climate science began?

Wonderful.


6 posted on 07/11/2023 4:02:53 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Almost no serious geologist buys into this definition.


7 posted on 07/11/2023 4:03:39 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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?


8 posted on 07/11/2023 4:03:46 PM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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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.


9 posted on 07/11/2023 4:04:09 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There’s also a new epoch in “journalism.” And it isn’t about telling the truth or finding the facts.


10 posted on 07/11/2023 4:04:15 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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Seven folks came up with this one. This isn't science, as yet, but AP is publicizing it. It is public relations, quite akin to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock.

"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.

11 posted on 07/11/2023 4:06:19 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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12 posted on 07/11/2023 4:07:07 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Scientists? Uh....no.
Folks who wouldn’t have a job, save for corrupt ‘gubmit’ and universities? H*ll yes.


13 posted on 07/11/2023 4:07:18 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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More like the “Idiocene”, which started in 1848 with the publication of the Communist Manifesto.


14 posted on 07/11/2023 4:14:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Then you can’t blame this one on the baby boomer generation!! The oldest of them were barely out of diapers!!


15 posted on 07/11/2023 4:15:24 PM PDT by willgolfforfood
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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!


16 posted on 07/11/2023 4:15:56 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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Full of Bovinium Scatum.


17 posted on 07/11/2023 4:17:27 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Disneyland Opening Day, Sunday, July 17, 1955

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

18 posted on 07/11/2023 4:20:43 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There was I specie loss till Man came along…
…oh wait….

Well there was no climate change till man came along….
..Oh wait…

Well human activity is causing climate change…
…oh wait…

It’s reassuring that “scientists” are saying this. It’d suck if it was people who are always wrong about everything…

…Oh wait…


19 posted on 07/11/2023 4:21:31 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Democrats are satanic liars.


20 posted on 07/11/2023 4:21:55 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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